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Khodorkovsky's lawyers petition to dismiss new charges

Published: 06 March, 2009, 19:43


The lawyers defending former Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, have appealed to a Moscow court to drop the charges against their clients, claiming absence of corpus delecti.

 
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