The Russian prosecutors preparing to transmit to the court on new charges against the former Yukos oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, paving the way for a new trial, according to the prosecutor's office and representatives of the accused.
Prosecutors said in a statement that Mr. Khodorkovsky and his former business partner Platon Lebedev, sentenced in 2005 to eight years in prison, would be charged with "embezzlement", "embezzlement" and for "financial transactions illegal. "
"Once our work is completed, the file will be forwarded to the court," the Interfax news agency said a representative of the prosecution, Marina Gridnev.
"Copies of the findings of the prosecution not all yet been transmitted (to the relevant bodies) because of technical problems, "she added.
lawyers MM. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev for their part said they received the 14 volumes of the Act of indictment signed by the Attorney General, Victor Grinyer.
"The bureaucrats 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 inmates in a statement.
MM. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are accused of having carried out operations illegal for a total of 896 billion rubles (about $ 25 billion) between 1998 and 2003.
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 fraud tax.
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