Russian court finds Yukos boss guilty of murders

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Source: Reuters

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"A top manager of the now defunct YUKOS business empire was sentenced on Friday by a Russian court to life in prison for ordering a series of high profile murders, a verdict he dismissed as the result of a show trial organized by the Kremlin.

The Moscow city court found Leonid Nevzlin, one of YUKOS chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky's closest advisers, guilty of organizing five murders including the killing of a local mayor where the oil firm's biggest production unit was based.

"The court has decided that as Nevzlin poses a special threat to society he should serve life in a high security prison," Judge Valery Novikov said.

The court also ruled that Nevzlin -- who fled to Israel in 2003 -- should pay 5.5 million roubles ($235,000) in compensation to the victims. He was also found guilty of three attempted murders.

Nevzlin was once a major shareholders in the YUKOS empire, which has been divided up and sold off by the Russian state to pay for huge back tax claims levied by the tax authorities."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL136480520080801

[Dover]

1. I'll bet a surprising number of murders could be attributed to multi=nat'l corporations.

They are wealthier than some nations and consider themselves sovereign, creating their own "laws"
and creating their own intelligence gathering entities and armies. And their anthem is profit...
at all costs.