** "Well, he was tried in the court of law and convicted, so the defence has failed. When defenders of Khodarkovsky say 'the whole legal system is corrupt' they do not make any argument at all. The legal system is of course not perfect, but this is the only one that Russia has. It is much less corrupt than 10 years ago, when Khodorkovsky commited his fraud. Should Yukos be taken away from him because legal system was corrupt when he acquired assets? **