A spokesman for Mikhail Khodorkovsky says the former Russian
oil tycoon is in Israel for a short visit three weeks after he was released
from prison by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Khodorkovsky's Germany-based spokesman Christian Hanne
confirmed the visit but would give no further details except to say it would be
short.
Khodorkovsky's business partner Leonid Nevzlin has been in
Israel since Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003 on money-laundering and tax
evasion charges that many in the West consider trumped-up.
Two other former
shareholders, Vladimir Dubov and Mikhail Brudno, are also in Israel where they
fled to avoid arrest.
The former tycoon had traveled to Switzerland last Sunday.
He was pardoned by Putin and flown to Berlin on Dec. 20 after spending more
than a decade in prison.
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