The Russian Billionaire Putin Locked Away

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]In Russia when you are put on trial, there's a 99.7% conviction rate in criminal court in Russia.

[00:00:09]And then Putin allows the television cameras to come in the room >> [music] >> to film the richest man in Russia sitting in a cage.

[00:00:17]And this had a profound effect on all the other oligarchs.

[00:00:22]Imagine that you're on your yacht.

[00:00:25]You're parked off in Antibes, France.

[00:00:27]Flick on CNN.

[00:00:29]And there you see a guy far smarter, far more powerful, far richer than you sitting in a cage.

[00:00:39]What's the natural reaction?

[00:00:42]You don't want to sit in that cage yourself.

[00:00:46]>> Khodorkovsky was found guilty of fraud and sent to jail. [music]