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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/khodorkovsky-gets-further-six-years.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A judge has sentenced Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to a further six years in prison (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-khodorkovsky-gets-further-six-years.jpg" alt="A judge has sentenced Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to a further six years in prison (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been sentenced to a further six years in prison following a trial seen as payback for his defiance of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s power.</p>
<p>Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky to fourteen years after convicting him of stealing oil from his own company and laundering the proceeds.</p>
<p>The new sentence is counted from his 2003 arrest and includes his previous term in jail. </p>
<p>Khodorkovsky is in the final year of an eight-year prison sentence.</p>
<p>Following his 20-month second trial, the judge convicted Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev on charges of stealing around $27 billion worth of the oil that his Yukos company produced from 1998 to 2003 and laundering the proceeds. </p>
<p>Defence lawyers said much of the judge&#8217;s verdict was copied from the indictment and the prosecutors&#8217; final arguments. They called the charges ridiculous, saying they reflected a lack of understanding of the oil business, including the payment of transit fees and export duties.</p>
<p>The judge also sentenced Lebedev to fourteen years.</p>
<p>Prime minister Putin is seen as the driving force behind the trial of Khodorkovsky, who challenged him during his presidency.</p>
<p>Putin, eyeing a return to the presidency in 2012, appears unwilling to risk the possibility that a freed Khodorkovsky could help lead his political foes.</p>
<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry has dismissed Western criticism of the trial as unacceptable pressure.</p>
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