The court transferred the high school founded by Khodorkovsky into state ownership

A court in Moscow transferred the private high school, which was founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian critic of the Russian authorities who currently lives abroad, into state ownership, the Mediazona portal reported.

The Prosecutor General's Office submitted such a request, claiming that the high school belonged to the creditors of Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev.

The prosecutor's office also claimed that the high school received funds from the “Khodorkovsky Foundation” and that his images were inside the building, and that Khodorkovsky himself supports sanctions against Russia and finances Ukrainian soldiers.

The high school was established in 1994 in the settlement of Korałlovo in the Moscow Oblast on the initiative of Khodorkovskyand declares its goal to be educational support for children from the most vulnerable social groups, e.g. orphans or children from large families. The institution taught, among others: children who survived the terrorist attacks on the school in Beslan in 2004 and on the Moscow theater in Dubrovka in 2002.

Khodorkovsky was one of the richest men in Russia at the beginning of Putin's rule. In 2003, he was arrested when he came into conflict with the Kremlin, accused Putin's entourage of corruption and began to financially support the opposition. In 2005, he was sentenced to nearly 11 years in a labor camp for alleged economic crimes. He never pleaded guilty to the crimes he was accused of and claimed that his arrest and trial were a punishment for his political ambitions. In 2013, he was pardoned by Putin and went abroad. Currently lives in Great Britain. (PAP)

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