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Saturday October 25, 7:59 PM Russia charges YUKOS boss with fraud, tax evasion MOSCOW, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The head of Russia's biggest oil firm YUKOS , Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was charged on Saturday with six counts of fraud and tax evasion, a spokeswoman for the General Prosecutor's office said.

You probably don't know what the meaning of "is" is either. By the way I don't watch Law & Order.

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Contrary to what RussianConservative says, no trial date has been set. He has a pre-trial hearing on Dec. 30th. As for the charges he faces, lets just say that they can be "adjusted" at the whim of the prosecution. Meanwhile, he sits in jail.

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Anton Drel, Mr Khodorkovsky's lawyer, said seven charges against him, including fraud and tax evasion totalling $1bn, had been presented, though not in the usual form of a legal document, and said elements of these demonstrated that their action was politically motivated.
Financial Times, October 27, 2003

Mr. Drel, you will remember, had his office raided and his documents seized by the FSB. There is a whole lot more going-on here than both of us know, and certainly more than the state-run media in Russia is reporting.