Profile of Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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Moscow - 23 May 2005 1. Wide shot car with Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev pulling out of court and driving off Moscow - 24 May 2005 2. Wide shot Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in courtroom cage 3. Close-up Khodorkovsky 4. Mid shot Lebedev Rostov-on-Don - 10 June 1996 5. Wide shot ex-Russian president Boris Yeltsin dancing on stage, zoom to mid shot 6. STILL: wide shot Yeltsin meeting businessmen, Khodorkovsky far right Location unknown - Winter 2001 7. Various of Yukos oil fields Moscow - 31 May 2001 8. Mid shot Khodorkovsky talking to another businessman in Kremlin 9. Wide shot businessmen meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin 10. Close-up Putin Moscow - April, 2003 11. Wide shot Khodorkovsky shakes hands with Yevgeny Shvidler, president of Sibneft oil company, zoom to mid shot 12. STILL: Khodorkovsky 13. STILL: close-up of handcuff, pan to face Moscow - 4 July 2004 14. Wide shot Yukos headquarters with police officers in foreground 15. Mid shot police and bailiffs leaving bus 16. Wide shot pan police encircling Yukos office Moscow - 26 May 2005 17. Set up shot Sergei Markov, head of the Institute for Political Research 18. SOUNDBITE (Russian): Sergei Markov, Head of the Institute for Political Research "He's the only one who decided to use his money not for economic growth, but for political power. And Vladimir Putin, as a representative of the majority of the nation, decided to stop this oligarch who wants to buy political power. It was a totally political deal and Vladimir Putin has total political support." Moscow - date unknown 19. Wide shot barbed wire at Matrosskaya Tishina prison, where Khodorkovsky is currently being held 20. Truck delivers prisoners to prison STORYLINE: The two-year legal saga concerning one of the richest men in Russia is finally over. A Moscow court found oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of an array of charges Tuesday including fraud and tax evasion, and sentenced him to nine years in prison, minus time served. The announcements came on the 12th day of the laborious verdict-reading process in the most closely watched trial of post-Soviet Russia, and one which has been widely criticised as politically motivated. Khodorkovsky, the former head of the Yukos oil company and once estimated to be Russia's richest man, has already spent 583 days in jail, meaning he would serve about another seven-and-a-half years in prison. Khodorkovsky looked straight ahead as the sentence was pronounced. His co-defendant Platon Lebedev, found guilty of the same charges and given the same sentence, said, "There's not a sane person who can understand what you have said." Khodorkovsky's rise to wealth and power began during Boris Yeltsin's presidency in the early 1990's. Fearing that Communists would be elected, Yeltsin appealed for funds to Russia's richest businessmen. When the government couldn't pay back these loans, the businessmen were given control of Russia's natural resources for vastly-reduced prices - the era of the 'oligarchs' had begun. Khodorkovsky bought oil giant Yukos at a state auction in 1995 for a meagre 350 (m) million US dollars. Over the next five years he built the company into country's biggest oil company. Khodorkovsky's fortune was once estimated as high as 15 (b) billion US dollars. He was seen as the leading oligarch in the country. But Khodorkovsky fell foul of the Kremlin when he branched out into the political arena, giving donations to opposition parties and criticising President Vladimir Putin. Supporters have claimed that Khodorkovsky's trial was part of a Kremlin-driven campaign to punish him and to stifle his own political ambitions. Khodorkovsky gambled that the public outcry in the West and Russia made him untouchable. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/001d86aa64217c905b00943734155ef9 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork