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The World: "Everything is done to ensure that Khodorkovsky did not jail"

former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has arrived, Tuesday, March 3, the court Khamovnitcheski in Moscow, where he will meet with embezzlement and money laundering. The prosecution accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 45, and his associate Platon Lebedev, of embezzling nearly 900 billion rubles (20 billion euros) and laundered 500 billion rubles between 1998 and 2003, charges that could earn him twenty-two years more behind bars. This trial

will be a test of will displayed by the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, to reform a corrupt judiciary, said the defense of the former boss of oil company Yukos. Once the richest man in Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is appearing for a preliminary hearing, has already served in prison in Chita, Siberia, near the Chinese border, half of eight years in prison to which he was sentenced in 2005 for escape and evasion. He was no longer come in the Russian capital since late 2005.

"EVERYTHING IS DONE TO ENSURE THAT IT DOES NOT"

The thin man with glasses and cropped hair, now aged 45, is often presented by critics of the Kremlin as a political prisoner, guilty foremost posting too much independence and political ambitions against Vladimir Putin.

"Without this second trial, Khodorkovsky was found freedom in 2011, one year before the next presidential election. Now everything is done to ensure that it does not in prison," said Marie Jego, correspondent of the World Moscow.

Attorney General Yury Chaika believes that the guilt of MM. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is "no doubt". This lawsuit comes a year after the election the Kremlin to Dmitry Medvedev, whose attitude on this issue remains unclear and some of whom continue to expect more leniency than his predecessor Vladimir Putin.

"It's a case of great importance because it will tell us all where is Russia," said Robert Amsterdam, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyer, contacted by telephone in London. "The fact that the Russian president has denounced the legal nihilism up this process in a new context," he added.

For Marie Jego, if a majority of Russians continue to see Mikhail Khodorkovsky "an unpopular oligarch who made a lot of money through privatizations of the Yeltsin era, "the intelligentsia feels increasingly" a form of sympathy for him. "