MOSCOW (AP) — Jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev appear to have been sent without warning Friday to a prison colony outside of Moscow to continue serving their 13-year sentence, but the location was unknown, their lawyers said.
They had been transferred back to Moscow more than two years ago and held in a detention center during their second politically driven trial, which ended in December with them being found guilty of stealing tens of billions of dollars worth of oil from Khodorkovsky's company, Yukos.
Their transfer back to prison had been expected following the rejection of their appeal on May 24.
Khodorkovsky's elderly …
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