Ex-Yukos boss faces labour camp

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Ex-Yukos boss faces labour camp

Tuesday 29 March 2005, 18:19 Makka Time, 15:19 GMT


Khodorkovsky (L) and Lebedev are facing major prison sentences


Russian prosecutors have requested Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former chief executive of the Yukos oil company, be sentenced to 10 years in a prison labour camp.


Chief prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin asked a Moscow court to find Khodorkovsky guilty on tax evasion and other charges on Tuesday.

Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev have been the target of a lengthy court process stemming from the allegedly illegal acquisition of shares in a fertiliser-component maker in 1994.

However, the court ruled that the statute of limitations on the fertiliser case had expired and the only charges on which the two men could be sentenced were tax evasion and document fraud.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8BD74145-9259-4FD6-A18C-D7697EAD9C3E.htm

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1. If Ken Lay had faced a possible 10 year stint in a Labor Camp...

He hinght have paid attention more closely, eh?