RIA Novosti
Thursday 14th November, 2013
MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Supreme Court has refused to consider appeals to dismiss charges against jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev, according to a statement posted on the pair’s official website. Khodorkovsky, the former head of the now-defunct Yukos oil company, and Lebedev had asked the court to review the results of their trial in 2010, when they were found guilty of embezzlement. Their lawyers have called the original verdict illegal and unjustified. The Supreme Court had already reviewed and upheld the…
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