MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti) – Jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was once Russia’s richest man and has spent about a decade behind bars, has been promoted and now helps make stationery, a prison service official said on Thursday.
An unnamed source in Russia’s Federal Prison Service told RIA Novosti that the former CEO of now-defunct oil giant Yukos used to be classed as a “general laborer” but now works as a quality control inspector dealing with the production of folders from cardboard and ribbons.
The prison service source told RIA Novosti that Khodorkovsky, who turned 50 on Wednesday, was working well and had not been given any reprimands by his supervisors.
Khodorkovsky was sent to a prison facility in Segezha, in the northern Russian region of Karelia, after being sentenced on embezzlement charges in 2010. He is due for release in 2014.
This sentence was added on to the earlier eight-year-sentence he was given for tax-evasion, which he had been serving in a Siberian facility sewing mittens. His supporters claim two cases were the Kremlin’s revenge for his political and business ambitions.
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