Russian authorities are planning to seize the family home of the jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, says his wife.Inna Khodorkovskaya said Moscow's Basmanny court had informed her that the couple's property in an elite gated community in Zhukovka, on the edge of the capital, was "under arrest"."They have finally reached the women and children," she told Radio Svoboda. Mrs Khodorkovskaya lives in a three-storey brick kottedzh in the luxury Apple Garden settlement, with the couple's daughter Nastya, 15, and their seven-year-old twin sons, Ilya and Gleb. Prosecutors have chipped away at the assets of Khodorkovsky and his former oil company, Yukos, since he was arrested on a Siberian airfield in October 2003. The tycoon was sentenced last year to eight years in jail for fraud and tax evasion...
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