Billionaire Jailed for Fraud Sent to Siberian Colony
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, will serve the remaining eight years of his jail sentence for fraud at a prison colony in the impoverished Siberian region of Chita.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, will serve the remaining eight years of his jail sentence for fraud at a prison colony in the impoverished Siberian region of Chita. Anton Drel, a lawyer for Mr Khodorkovsky, said he would visit the billionaire next week in the YAG 14/10 prison colony which is 3,000 miles east of Moscow, not far from the Chinese border. "I don't know his conditions there," he said. Russian media reported that prisoners there once built the infrastructure for nearby uranium mines but now worked in forestry, carpentry and making clothes.
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