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Wed 07 Jul 2008Khodorkovsky seeks early release from jail
Jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky today appealed to a Russian court for early release from his eight-year prison sentence for tax evasion and fraud, his lawyers said.
Khodorkovsky's 2005 conviction became a symbol of the then-president Vladimir Putin's crusade against tycoons he accused of seeking to grab political power.
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