Khodorkovsky found guilty as protests mount against Putin and 'charade' trial

[Joanne98]

The fate of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was left hanging in the balance today after a court in Moscow found him guilty of theft and money laundering in a politically tinged trial that is seen as a weathervane for Russia's future course.

Viktor Danilkin, the trial judge, told the packed court that Khodorkovsky, 47, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, 54, "carried out the embezzlement of property entrusted to the defendants".

But the trial remains delicately poised because Danilkin will not sentence until he finishes reading his full 250-page verdict, which could take several days.

Opposing factions in the Kremlin are said to be in dispute over how much longer the businessman, who has already spend seven years in jail on earlier fraud charges, should stay behind bars.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/27/khodorvosky-guilty-protests-putin-trial

LOL Fake citizens are soooo upset that an oil tycoon went to jail.

We must have exported FAKE astroturf teabaggerism to Russia.