His business partner, Platon Lebedev, was also found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison. State prosecutors had demanded the maximum 10-year prison sentence for both men.
The third defendant in the case, Andrei Krainov, was given a five-and-a-half year sentence. Today's final verdict came at the end of an 11-month trial.
Khodorkovskii, the former head of the Yukos oil company, has already spent more than a year-and-a-half in jail, which will count against his prison term.
Khodorkovskii's supporters say the trial was a Kremlin-inspired campaign to punish him for funding opposition parties and to stifle his own political ambitions.
(RFE/RL's Russian Service/AP/Reuters)
The third defendant in the case, Andrei Krainov, was given a five-and-a-half year sentence. Today's final verdict came at the end of an 11-month trial.
Khodorkovskii, the former head of the Yukos oil company, has already spent more than a year-and-a-half in jail, which will count against his prison term.
Khodorkovskii's supporters say the trial was a Kremlin-inspired campaign to punish him for funding opposition parties and to stifle his own political ambitions.
(RFE/RL's Russian Service/AP/Reuters)
