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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Russia finds oil tycoon guilty in second trial AFP - Tuesday, December 28 Send IM Story Print Russia finds oil tycoon guilty in second trial MOSCOW (AFP) - – A Moscow court found tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty in his second fraud trial, provoking condemnation from the West over a case seen as an indicator of Russia's political future. Khodorkovsky and co-accused Platon Lebedev were convicted of embezzlement and money laundering, said judge Viktor Danilkin, dashing the hopes of Russian liberals that the trial would show a new approach from Russian courts. The United States led some stinging Western reaction, with the White House saying it was "deeply concerned" about the "selective application of justice". Reax: West slams Russia for new Khodorkovsky verdict Germany called it a step backward for Russia. The pair were charged with embezzling 218 million tonnes of oil from Khodorkovsky's Yukos oil giant between 1998 and 2003 and laundering 487 billion rubles (16 billion dollars) and 7.5 billion dollars received from the oil. "This is an unjust verdict by a court that is not free," Khodorkovsky's lead lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant told journalists. "It is shameful for the country. We will appeal the verdict." Amid chaotic scenes, only a handful of reporters were allowed into the courtroom for the verdict and judge Danilkin then requested even those journalists to leave as the rest of the verdict was read out. "The court has established that M. Khodorkovsky and P. Lebedev committed embezzlement acting in collusion with a group of people and using their professional positions," said Danilkin in the judgement. Both reacted impassively to the judgement in the glass-fronted defendants' cage in the packed courtroom, Khodorkovsky leafing through papers and looking into the air while Lebedev appeared to be reading a book. Hundreds of supporters gathered outside the court shouted "Russia without Putin" and "Down with the police state". An AFP correspondent saw police arrest 20 people. The court adjourned Monday evening until 0700 GMT Tuesday and it was not clear when the final sentence would be delivered. Once the country's richest man and now its most prominent prisoner, Khodorkovsky, 47, is already serving an eight-year sentence for fraud on charges that his supporters insist were trumped up by the authorities. But with his release scheduled for 2011, Khodorkovsky was put on trial last year on charges of money laundering and embezzlement that could see the head of the now-defunct Yukos oil giant stay in jail until 2017. The verdict was watched as a possible indicator of Russia's future direction under Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, amid speculation that Putin is planning a return to the Kremlin in 2012 polls. Liberals had hoped an acquittal would send a signal to the West that Russia was serious about reform and demonstrate the independence of its judiciary. "The judge would have had to have been a hero to have given an acquittal verdict," Lyudmila Alexeyeva, one of Russia's best known rights defenders, told the Interfax news agency. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, travelling with President Barack Obama in Hawaii, said the US was "troubled by the allegations of serious due process violations, and what appears to be an abusive use of the legal system for improper ends." The "apparent selective application of the law to these individuals undermines Russia's reputation as a country committed to deepening the rule of law," he added. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said that "the way the trial has been conducted is extremely dubious and a step backward on the road toward a modernisation of the country." In a more subdued reaction, Britain said it would stress to Russia that the law should be applied in a "non-discriminatory and proportional way". European Parliament head Jerzy Buzek said Khodorkovsky's case "has become an emblematic symbol of the systemic problems of the rule of law, legal nihilism and human rights in today's Russia." Amnesty International called on the Moscow courts to overturn the conviction "on the grounds that his trial was unfair and appeared politically motivated." Moscow's Khamovnichesky court had postponed the verdict from its original date of December 15, without explaining why. The next day Putin compared Khodorkovsky to US fraudster Bernard Madoff, jailed for 150 years, and observed that a "thief must be in prison". The pursuit of Khodorkovsky has been the most controversial legal action of the post-Soviet era in Russia. Like many other billionaires, Khodorkovsky made his fortune in controversial loans-for-shares privatisation in the 1990s but his supporters say he turned Yukos into Russia's most transparent company. 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