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New case launched against Khodorkovsky

Published: 18 February, 2009, 17:33


AFP Photo / Pavel Zelensky

The prosecution has presented new charges against the former co-owners of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev on Tuesday, while they remain in pre-trial detention centre in Chita, Siberia.

 
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