Jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky will be sent to a prison in the north-west Russian Karelia region close to the border with Finland, a source in the Russian penal administration said on Wednesday.
Once Russia's richest man, Khodorkovsky is serving a 13-year jail sentence on charges of embezzlement and tax fraud.
"Khodorkovsky is currently in a transit camp in Vologda [central Russia] awaiting his transfer to Karelia," the source told RIA Novosti.
The former head of the now defunct Yukos oil company served out the first part of his sentence in eastern Siberia, but was moved to a pre-trial detention center in Moscow late last year to undergo a second trial and an appeal. He was transferred to Vologda on June 10.
