Billionaire to Serve His 8-Year Term in Siberia
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Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been sent to the wastelands of Siberia to serve his eight-year sentence on fraud and tax evasion charges, authorities said, sparking outrage among his lawyers and rights activists.
Khodorkovsky’s supporters say his move to camp IK-10 near China is part of a Kremlin campaign to isolate him as a critic of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Khodorkovsky associate Platon Lebedev, who was given an identical jail sentence, has been sent to Yamalo-Nenets above the Arctic Circle.
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