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Credit: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin MOSCOW (Reuters) - A former Russian minister testified on Monday in the trial of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, becoming the first top Kremlin ally to appear in the case which is seen as a test of promised judicial reforms. World | Russia Kremlin critics dismissed the appearance of German Gref, who now heads Russia's largest bank, as a bid to lend legitimacy to politically charged proceedings against the former Yukos chief. The trial of Khodorkovsky, who is serving an eight-year sentence and faces up to 22 more years in prison if found guilty in the new trial, is seen as a bellwether for Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev has urged reforms to a judicial system which he acknowledges is marred by corruption and political influence, but critics say little has changed since he took office in May 2008. Gref, a former economics minister who is now CEO of state-controlled Sberbank, spoke cautiously in court and later avoided an answer when asked by reporters what he thought about the charges against Khodorkovsky. "To have an opinion about the charges it's necessary to see them and not repeat your words," he said after the hearing. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, was originally convicted of fraud and tax evasion in 2005. His supporters say that trial was part of a Kremlin-driven campaign to punish him for challenging Medvedev's predecessor, Vladimir Putin, and to tighten the state's grip on the oil industry. Yukos was bankrupted by tax claims and sold mostly to state-run companies, deepening concerns in the West about the rule of law and property rights in Russia. Critics of Putin, now prime minister and still seen as holding Russia's reins, contend the new charges were trumped up to keep Khodorkovsky in prison beyond a 2012 election in which Putin has not ruled out a return to the presidency. In the second trial, which began last year, Khodorkovsky is accused of stealing $30 billion worth of oil from Yukos production subsidiaries between 1998 and 2003 by paying them less for the oil than it was subsequently sold for. His lawyers wanted the court to call dozens of officials including Putin to testify, part of an attempt to establish that Yukos followed common practices that were accepted by the government and did not break the law. The judge has allowed only a few, including Gref, who was economics minister during Putin's presidency and later a state property official. Industry Minister Viktor Khristenko is due to testify on Tuesday. Gref's testimony came days after Medvedev, who has wooed the West with talk of rights and democracy and a softer tone than Putin, told global business leaders at a showcase economic forum that Russia has changed. Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov dismissed the trial and the testimony as a farce. "In order to add some legitimacy to the trial, they summon Khristenko and Gref to testify," he said. Defense lawyer Konstantin Rivkin said Gref helped Khodorkovsky's case by saying that an oil company would go bankrupt if it sold oil on Western markets at internal prices. But political commentator Yulia Latynina, a Kremlin critic, said the testimony of prominent government allies was meant to draw attention away from what she said was a predetermined verdict. She called the trial "a show for the public." 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