Politician and former owner of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky (known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) was put on the wanted list due to a new criminal case. Information about this appeared in the Ministry of Internal Affairs file.
The card states that he has been “re-announced” that he is wanted for a new criminal case. Before that, he was wanted for the murder of Nefteyugansk mayor Vladimir Petukhov; The case was filed in 2015.
Moscow Meshchansky Court in December fine Khodorkovsky for not identifying a foreign agent in his posts on social networks. The former businessman will have to pay a fine of 50 thousand rubles.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former owner of the Yukos oil company, was arrested in October 2003. In 2005, he was sentenced to prison on charges of fraud and tax evasion. In 2010, the businessman was sentenced to another term in prison due to new conditions. Khodorkovsky’s prison sentence was expected to end in August 2014.
December 20, 2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Decree on pardon of Khodorkovsky. As Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov put it, the president did this “based on purely humanitarian and humanitarian concerns.”
Formerly in the State Duma offered Prohibiting loans to foreign agencies.