May 18, 2008 By James Kimer

Khodorkovsky Interview in the Times

A very rare interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky is published in the Times today:

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Jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky ‘framed’ by key Putin aide Mark Franchetti, Moscow THE former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now serving an eight year prison sentence, has accused one of prime minister Vladimir Putin’s most senior aides of plotting to have him arrested and stripping his oil company of billions. Khodorkovsky, jailed on fraud and tax evasion charges, accused Igor Sechin, a former KGB officer who became deputy prime minister this month, of plundering his oil company “out of greed”.