Yukos security chief gets 20 years for murder

A Moscow court jailed the former security chief of oil major Yukos , Alexei Pichugin, for 20 years on Wednesday after a jury …

A Moscow court jailed the former security chief of oil major Yukos , Alexei Pichugin, for 20 years on Wednesday after a jury convicted him of murder, his lawyer said.

The news came a day after prosecutors called on another Moscow court to sentence Yukos's former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky to a maximum 10-year jail sentence for tax evasion and fraud.

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