MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors on Monday brought new charges against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a move likely to bury the politically ambitious tycoon's hopes of release from jail before 2008 presidential elections.
Khodorkovksy, the founder of the YUKOS oil major and once one of Russia's wealthiest and most powerful men, will now be tried on money-laundering charges, his lawyer said. He is already serving an eight-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion.
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