Former CEO of the Russian oil company Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, said on Monday that wardens at the remand center where he is being held pushed an inmate suffering from a contagious disease into his cell and into the cell of his co-defendant and former partner Platon Lebedev.
âAfter the hearings were held on the 14th â the hearings may or may not be the reason for the incident â literally on the next day the same contagious sick man was pushed into three cells of the 10 cells on our floor,â the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted Khodorkovsky as saying.
| A little more obvious than putting poison in his soup |
Khodorkovsky said that he and the former head of Yukosâ holding company Menatep, Platon Lebedev, were in two of the three cells. âOn Friday, strict quarantine was announced in these cells and it was not cancelled when I was taken from there to court,â Khodorkovsky added. Mikhail Khodorkovsky did not specify the disease that caused the quarantine to be announced. | Flu? Measles? Smallpox? Ebola? |
RIA-Novosti added that due to the quarantine measures imposed Khodorkovsky could not meet his lawyers over the weekend. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were jailed for nine years earlier this summer on fraud and tax evasion charges. Their lawyers are currently appealing the sentence. |