MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been taken to a prison in a remote Siberian region bordering China to serve his eight-year fraud and tax evasion sentence, Russian news agencies reported.The prison, whose original inmates in the 1960s helped build a uranium processing plant, is near the town of Krasnokamensk in the Chita region some 5,000 km (3,107 miles) east of Moscow."It is a normal colony providing normal living conditions," Interfax quoted the local prison administration head Alexander Pleshkov as saying.The prison is not home to especially dangerous criminals, he added, mainly those convicted of theft and fraud. "There are no criminal bosses here."Khodorkovsky's supporters say he is the victim of a Kremlin campaign to neutralise him as a political rival and break up his company. Russian officials say he is a common criminal who has tried to paint himself as a political martyr.The tycoon's whereabouts have been the subject of intense speculation since he was taken away from his pre-trial centre in Moscow earlier this month. His sentence came into force on September 22 when a Moscow court rejected his appeal, though it did cut one year off the initial term.Copyright 2005 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.