{"id":9989,"date":"2010-12-27T12:38:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T09:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2010-12-27T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T09:38:59","slug":"russian-oil-tycoon-guilty-of-embezzlement-27122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/russian-oil-tycoon-guilty-of-embezzlement-27122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Oil Tycoon Guilty Of Embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mikhail-khodorkovsky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9990\" title=\"Mikhail Khodorkovsky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mikhail-khodorkovsky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mikhail-khodorkovsky.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mikhail-khodorkovsky-280x156.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>A Russian judge has said jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is guilty of money laundering and embezzling property, the main charges in his second trial.<\/p>\n<p>The former head of oil giant Yukos was declared guilty along with his former business partner Platon Lebedev.<\/p>\n<p>The reading of the verdicts is expected to last several days with sentencing to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty demonstrators proclaiming Khodorkovsky&#8217;sinnocence were arrested outside the court after the guilty verdict was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Khodorkovsky, once Russia&#8217;s richest man, is coming to the end of an eight-year prison sentence after being convicted of tax fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin &#8211; who was president at the time of the first case &#8211; accuse him of engineering all the charges against Khodorkovsky for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Putin is expected to run for president again in 2012 and critics suspect him of wanting to keep Khodorkovsky in prison until after that date.<\/p>\n<p>After making millions during the break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Khodorkovsky used his fortune to ensure the re-election of Boris Yeltsin in 1996 &#8211; when it had looked likely that the Communisty Party could win.<\/p>\n<p>He now looks likely to spend another six years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The original charges against him were levelled soon after Mr Putin took power, when Khodorkovsky was thought to be financing rival political parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian judge has said jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is guilty of money laundering and embezzling property<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,101,14],"tags":[13782,13783,13778,13777,13779,13780,13781,1567],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-boris-yeltsin","tag-communisty-party","tag-embezzling","tag-mikhail-khodorkovsky","tag-oil-giant-yukos","tag-platon-lebedev","tag-tax-fraud","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}