YUKOS Security Chief Gets 20 Years for Murder
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court jailed the former security chief of oil major YUKOS for 20 years on Wednesday for murder, less than the maximum life sentence prosecutors had demanded.
Analysts have been closely watching the sentencing of Alexei Pichugin for an indication of how harshly the courts will treat his former boss and billionaire founder of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is trial for tax evasion and fraud.
The prosecution on Tuesday called for a maximum 10-year jail term if Khodorkovsky, in detention since his arrest in October 2003, is convicted in the case which his defense lawyers say could drag on until May.
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