15 Jun 2011 16:57

Khodorkovsky to serve term in Karelia - source

PETROZAVODSK, Russia. June 15 (Interfax) - Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is due to be brought within days to Petrozavodsk, capital of Russia's Karelia republic, and will then be moved on to a prison in the republic's Segezha district to serve his second sentence, a source in Karelia's security services told Interfax.

Interfax has been unable to obtain comments on this information from the Federal Penalty Enforcement Service.

There are two low-security jails in the Segezha district.