MOSCOW, December 20. /ITAR-TASS/. Former CEO of the Russian oil company YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky is released from prison on Friday.
“We received a report from the head of the prison that Khodorkovsky is set free and leaves the prison,” Khodorkovsky’s lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant told Itar-Tass. The attorney abstained from further comments.
Khodorkovsky has spent behind bars more than 10 years — 3709 days. He was supposed to be freed from prison, located in Karelia’s Segezha, in 8 months, in August 2014.
The Kremlin’s press service reported on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to pardon former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, freeing him from penalty.
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