Escaped Russian Tycoon Will Save Khodorkovsky

Leonid Nevzlin, the one of former owners of Yukos, called the charges brought against him the ?political persecution? of the Russian government. He asserted that the new charges were brought ?two weeks after I had presented information on the corruption schemes of Vladimir Putin and his circle, accused the Kremlin of extracting tributes from Russian businessmen and spoke about the financing of pro-Kremlin political parties,? Gazeta.ru website reported.

Also Nevzlin noted that new murder charge against formerYukos security chief Alexey Pichugin was completely unfounded.

Runaway Nevzlin, currently living in Israel, said he would still attempt to prove the innocence of Yukos? former bosses Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.