Khodorkovsky has rented a villa in Switzerland for €9.5 thousand a month

Khodorkovsky has rented a villa in Switzerland for €9.5 thousand a month

Luxury villa in Swiss Rapperswil costs Mikhail Khodorkovsky 11.5 thousand francs (€9.5 thousand) a month, according to ee24.com citing blick.ch.

Mr Khodorkovsky's wife and children have been living in Switzerland for years, and now the disgraced tycoon decided to move to this country himself. According to local media, he has already applied for a residence permit in Switzerland. At the moment he stays in the country on the basis of Schengen visa.

Neighbors told to journalists that next to the villa they saw the van of firm engaged in the destruction of insects, as well as a truck to transport furniture. One neighbor, 78-year-old Alfred Herbert, told reporters that he had bought a bottle of vodka as a present to Mikhail.

Khodorkovsky was welcomed not only by ordinary citizens, but also by local authorities: together with the mayor Erich Zoller they were eating pizza and discussing plans of the former head of Yukos.