A Russian court sentenced a Jewish oil magnate to nine years in jail. In a widely expected decision, the court sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man, after finding him guilty of six charges out of seven, including tax evasion, fraud and embezzlement.
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