“Unannounced Sentence” of Khodorkovsky Made Public

Former press secretary for Moscow's Khamovnichesky court, Natalia Vasilyeva, was interrogated by prosecutors in connection with her public allegation that Judge Viktor Danilkin imposed his 13.5 year prison sentence on Mikhail Khodorkovsky under outside pressure. Vasilieva presented to the prosecutors three pages of what she said was the original sentence written by Judge Viktor Danilkin, sentencing Khodorkovsky and his former Yukos colleague Platon Lebedev to only 10 years rather than 13.5 years. "This is the sentence Danilkin initially wanted to release," Vasilyeva's personal representative Irina Khrukova said in an interview. The prosecutors refused to consider the unsigned draft as proper evidence and concluded that Vasilyeva’s statements are based on “guesses and assumptions.”

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1659725
http://www.khodorkovskycenter.com/news-resources/stories/vasilieva-presents-investigative-committee-draft-danilkin-verdict-including-r
http://www.sledcom.ru/news/54362.html