once russia's richest man he's now russia's most prominent prisoner coming to the end of it a.t.'s sentence for the biggest tax fraud in the country's history he and his partner platon a belief which charged to stealing two hundred and eighteen million tonnes of oil worth twenty seven billion dollars from a subsidiary company you can see here that it has been announced guilty khodorkovsky supporters say he didn't break any laws khodorkovsky was not to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers who are used to tell him that. everything he did was within the law it was the blame of the laws that had the those loopholes and them before me tycoon rose to great wealth thanks to one of the world's largest non-state oil companies you can see the company grew from a state selloff in the one nine hundred ninety s. when government assets would be hived off in often cittie circumstances it soon became russia's fastest growing oil producer but the path to success had a dark side to a fanatic of ski's associates were later found guilty of a number of murders. the thieves pla