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Updated: 2005-06-01 11:01
 
Yukos ex-chief jailed for 9 years  
俄羅斯一家法庭5月31日作出判決,裁定尤科斯石油公司前總裁、俄羅斯前首富米哈伊爾·霍多爾科夫斯基欺詐、逃稅等多項罪名成立,判處他9年監(jiān)禁。至此,這場審理過程持續(xù)11個月之久的大案終于告一段落。  

Yukos ex-chief jailed for 9 years
Mr Khodorkovsky was found guilty at the end of the 11-month trial

Former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been jailed for nine years after being found guilty of six charges including tax evasion.

But his ordeal may not be at an end as Russian prosecutors have said they will soon bring fresh charges against him.

The news came as Mr Khodorkovsky was found guilty of six of the seven charges of tax evasion, fraud and embezzlement he had faced.

Meanwhile, his lawyers said he would take his appeal to Europe.

As well as appealing against the ruling at Russia's Supreme Court, Mr Khordokovsky will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights, they added.

US President George W Bush said that he had expressed concerns to Moscow that Mr Khodorkovsky was judged guilty before even standing trial.

"As I explained to him (Putin), here you're innocent until proven guilty, and it appeared to us - at least people in my administration - that it looked like he had been judged guilty prior to (having) a fair trial," President Bush said.

He added that the US would watch the case as it continued.

Mr Khodorkovsky is actually expected to serve seven-and-a-half years in jail as the court said his prison term should be reduced because of the amount of time served on remand since his arrest in 2003.

He will serve his time at a medium security prison camp.

But in a statement read out by his lawyer he pledged to continue his public activities behind bars.

It added he would set up "charitable foundations" to support Russian poetry and philosophy and set up a union for Russian inmates.

(BBC)

 

Vocabulary:
 

embezzlement: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else(侵占,挪用)

 

 
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