Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia’s Commissioner for Business Rights Boris Titov said that Mikhail Khodorkovsky had already served too much time in prison, and should be included under a proposed amnesty that could release 13,000 people jailed for economic crimes.

Titov, who was recently appointed by Vladimir Putin to assuage fears by foreign investors that the legal system would be used as an economic weapon by competitors, told Bloomberg, “For the investment climate, this would be good news.  This should be just and the right decision.”

Titov, whose office works on proposals to improve Russia’s investment climate with plans to overhaul the tax and criminal codes and to make it easier to register businesses, said he is ready to cooperate with the human rights council. He’s also prepared to review the case of Sergei Magnitsky, an anti- corruption lawyer who died in a Moscow jail.

“The current problems, when an entrepreneur faces the violation of his or her rights, bureaucratic pressure, corruption or administrative barriers, need to be resolved today — all of those problems,” Putin said Jun 21 when he announced the appointment of Titov, the head of the Delovaya Rossiya business lobby group.

The rule of law is Russia’s “biggest problem,” according to Titov, who said his office must strive to protest businesses.

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