Oil tycoon to face new charges

The Prosecutor-General’s office said today that it was planning to file new charges against oil tycoon and ex-Yukos boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, already awaiting a verdict on charges of tax evasion and fraud in a politically charged trial.

The statement that Khodorkovsky would face charges for money-laundering came just three days before the verdict is to be announced in the trial of his business partner Platon Lebedev.