Bailiffs to collect $600m from jailed oil tycoon

Russian bailiffs announced today that they were moving to collect more $600m (€488m) from jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky that was awarded by a Moscow court, a Russian news agency reported.

Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, was sentenced in May on tax evasion and fraud charges and he and business partner Platon Lebedev are now serving out eight-year prison sentences, in what observers have called a politically-motivated case.