20 May 2004 07:25
Judge appointed to try Khodorkovsky
MOSCOW. May 20 (Interfax) - A judge has been appointed to preside in the case of former Yukos CEO Mikhail
Khodorkovsky.
The case was entrusted to Irina Kolesnikova, a judge at Moscow's Meshchansky Court, who is also handling the
case of Menatep bank head Platon Lebedev. Earlier, she heard the trial of former Yukos-Moscow chief Vasily Shakhnovsky,
one of Khodorkovsky's lawyers told Interfax.
Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are charged with large-scale fraud, disobedience of court rulings, tax evasion, and
embezzlement.
Shakhnovsky said the proceedings against the defendants might be combined into the same court case. [RU EUROPE EEU
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