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Khodorkovsky's case may be sent to court in late May-early June

MOSCOW. April 14 (Interfax) - The case opened against former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky may be sent to court in late May or early June. "I have all grounds to suggest that the defense and the defendant himself will have finished studying the criminal case material by May 25, when the term of Khodorkovsky's custody is due to expire," Khodorkovsky's lawyer Genrikh Padva told Interfax on Wednesday. Padva said that after the signing of a protocol declaring that the studying of the case material has been finished, the prosecutor's office will adopt its indictment, after which the case can be sent to court. The lawyer said that the deadline for investigating the former Yukos head's case expires on May 30. Commenting on the publication of his client's second letter in a number of newspapers, Padva said that lawyer Albert Mkrtychev had written this letter at Khodorkovsky's dictation, adding that he saw "nothing illegal about this."