The Crown said in a statement that Mr. Khodorkovsky and his former associate, Platon Lebedev, sentenced in 2005 to eight years in prison, would be charged with "embezzlement", "embezzlement" and for "illegal financial transactions." "Today (Tuesday) the criminal case with the final conclusions of the charge were sent to court Khamovniki Moscow to be studied on its merits, "said the prosecutor's investigative committee in a statement.
" I am sure that the evidence collected leaves no doubt about the guilt of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev ", for his part said the Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, in an interview published Wednesday in the newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta Interfax which published excerpts on Tuesday.
lawyers MM. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev for their part said they received the 14 volumes of the indictment signed by the Attorney General, Victor Grinyer.
"The bureaucracy of the police have lost several years, enormous sums of money belonging to the state and a huge part of their reputation for making these accusations notoriously ridiculous," said the defense of two detainees in a statement.
MM. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are accused of illegal operations conducted for a total of 896 billion rubles (about $ 25 billion) between 1998 and 2003.
"These are particularly serious crimes," Mr Chaika said.
The prosecution announced it had opened this new survey in February 2007 against the former richest man in Russia.
Last August, a court in the Siberian city of Chita, near the place of detention of Mr. Khodorkovsky, has refused to grant him early release even though he had served more than half his prison sentence for tax evasion.
observers of Russian politics believe that the legal problems of several Yukos managers were primarily due to opposition to the regime of Mr Khodorkovsky's then president, Vladimir Putin.
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