Mikhail Khodorkovsky during his trial in Moscow in 2003 (right) and in 2011 while in prison.
Khodorkovsky By The Numbers
It has been 10 years since Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested on a Siberian airstrip on October 25, 2003. On the occasion of the anniversary, RFE/RL takes a look at some of the numbers behind the Khodorkovsky saga.
2 -- The number of times Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been convicted, alongside his business partner Platon Lebedev. In 2005, Khodorkovsky was found guilty of tax evasion and fraud. In 2010, he was convicted on new charges of embezzlement and money laundering.
4 -- The number of children Khodorkovsky has had by two marriages.
7 -- The identification number of the correctional facility (IK-7) where Khodorkovsky has been incarcerated since June 2011 in Segezha, a town close to the Arctic Circle and roughly 1,300 kilometers northwest of Moscow.
9 -- The number of legal and economic experts who criticized Khodorkovsky's second trial in a report for the Kremlin Human Rights Council, which was drafted at the behest of then-President Dmitry Medvedev in December 2011. Since the report, several authors have been interrogated by the Investigative Committee. One of them, Sergei Guriyev, fled the country. Some observers see this as a sign the Kremlin may be cooking up a third case against Khodorkovsky.
10 -- The number of years since Khodorkovsky was arrested.
16 -- Khodorkovsky's highest ranking on "Forbes" magazine's annual list of the world's richest people, which he scored in 2004. At the peak of his wealth, Khodorkovsky was worth an estimated $15 billion, making him the richest man in Russia before he was overtaken by Roman Abramovich.
50 -- Khodorkovsky's age. Watch Pavel Khodorkovsky greet his father on his 50th birthday, on June 25, 2013, in this YouTube video.
65 -- The percentage of Muscovites who would welcome the release of Khodorkovsky, according to a Levada Center poll published this week. Some 32 percent believe that ultimately any decision to release him "depends personally on [President] Vladimir Putin." Speaking about Khodorkovsky in 2010, Putin famously said: "a thief must sit in jail." Just over 50 percent of Muscovites consider Khodorkovsky the main political prisoner in the country.
303 -- The number of days until Khodorkovsky is due to be released, provided there is no new case brought against him. His current release date is August 25, 2014.
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Khodorkovsky: From Young Tycoon To Graying Inmate
October 25 marks the tenth anniversary of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man. The former CEO of oil giant Yukos was arrested in 2003 on tax evasion and fraud charges along with his business partner Platon Lebedev; in 2010, the two were sentenced to additional jail time on charges of embezzlement and money laundering. Khodorkovsky is now due to be released in August 2014. The case against him is seen by many in Russia as retribution for Khodorkovsky's political challenges to the Kremlin.
3,653 -- The number of days Khodorkovsky has spent in prison (as of October 25).
6,900 -- The distance in kilometers from Moscow of Krasnokammensk’s prison camp, YaG 14/10, where Khodorkovsky was incarcerated from 2005 to 2011. Khodorkovsky stitched police uniforms and mittens in the camp, which is located near the border with China and Mongolia in the vicinity of an infamous uranium mine. In June 2011, Khodorkovsky was moved to a prison colony in Segezha, near the Arctic Circle.
10,000 -- The amount of money in euros that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ordered the Kremlin to pay Khodorkovsky in damages in July 2013. In the ruling, the court found that the first trial against the tycoon was not politically motivated, although it found the trial was unfair and the sentence unjustified.
1.69 million -- The average number of barrels of oil produced daily by state energy giant Rosneft in 2005. Rosneft -- whose current CEO, Igor Sechin, is a close ally of Putin -- acquired the lion's share of Yukos's assets after Khodorkovsky's arrest. Thus began the meteoric rise of Rosneft, which can be seen on this graph on Rosneft’s website.
350 million -- The relatively paltry number of dollars that Khodorkovsky paid in the mid-'90s for Yukos, which would later become the largest oil company in the country. He picked it up as part of the controversial "loans for shares" deal that President Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin struck with the country’s tycoons in 1995.
350 million -- The number of tons of oil that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were originally charged with stealing in their second trial. The total was later revised downward to 218 million tons. In December 2010, Khodorkovsky was convicted of embezzlement and laundering the proceeds.
12.8 billion -- An estimate of the amount of money in dollars that Khodorkovsky's fortune fell from 2004 to 2005.
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