Putin pardons jailed former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Russian news agency

Russia's former richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Friday freed from his prison camp after receiving a pardon from President Vladimir Putin, the Interfax news agency reported.

"Around 12:20 pm (0820 GMT) Mikhail Khodorkovsky left the prison camp" in the town of Segezha in Karelia in northwestern Russian, a security source in Karelia told Interfax. Russian prison officials and spokespeople for Khodorkovsky questioned by AFP could not immediately confirm the report.