Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Russia Links Putin Critic Khodorkovsky to 1998 Murder

(Version anglaise seulement)

Russian investigators announced Tuesday they are reopening the case of the 1998 killing of a Siberian mayor and consider former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky a prime suspect. At the time when Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov was shot dead, he was involved in a conflict with Khodorkovsky's oil company, Yukos, over the payment of taxes to the town. Khodorkovsky and his associates have denied any involvement and no one has been convicted in the killing. The announcement that...

Lire l'article complet