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Khodorkovsky's Guilty Verdict Delayed Another Day

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Russian judges continued to read the verdict of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's trial today, but adjourned the court before it was over for the second day in a row. Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky is on trial for 11 counts of fraud, embezzlement, and tax evasion along with his business partner Platon Lebedev. Khodorkovsky was detained nearly a year and a half ago as part of an investigation into Yukos. Lebedev was arrested three months before him. The charges that both face have to do with the privatization of a fertilizer-component company in 1994. Many believe that Khodorkovsky is just the target of a Kremlin campaign to sabotage his political agenda. As Reuters latest ebusiness news

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