Former cellmate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky Alexander Kuchma was again sent to prison
On December 29, 2012, the Central District Court of Chita sentenced former cellmate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexander Kuchma, to three and a half years in a maximum security colony. It is important that the prosecution asked for five years for Alexander Kuchma for causing grievous bodily harm, and the lawyer insisted on acquittal, arguing that the client acted in self-defense. The court made, in a sense, a compromise decision.