Platon Lebedev

Platon Leonidovich Lebed ( j) ew (Russian Платон Леонидович Лебедев, scientific transliteration Platon Lebedev Leonidovič; born November 29, 1959 in Moscow ) is a Russian businessman and former vice - chairman of the now bankrupt oil company Yukos. Lebedev is married and father of three children.

Life

After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Economics, he worked in the Foreign Trade Department of the Soviet Ministry of Geology Zarubezhgeologija. In 1990 he became head of the Rosprom, a subsidiary equity management Menatep Invest. This was one of the first private banks in Russia in 1988 by Mikhail Khodorkovsky to finance the Komsomolbetriebes NT ™ (Centre for scientific and technical creativity of the young Foundation for Youth Initiative ) was established and has been successfully carried out thanks to its political relations of this even further. Under the direction of Lebedev himself Rosprom secured in 1995 as a banker to the ailing Yukos oil company, the majority shareholder of the company far below the market value, with objections inferior bidders were not considered. As Khodorkovsky in April 1996 fired the CEO of Bank Menatep and Yukos took over the line, he made his friend Lebedev his deputy here.

Arrest

Under the pretext to have in 1994 20 % of the shares of the mine apatite in Kirovsk illegally appropriated, Lebedev was arrested on 2 July 2003 in the hospital. After his defender Jelena Lipzer view ( daughter of the famous Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomarev ) presented this a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights represents the arrest was finally referred to by the Supreme Court of Russia as illegal in 2009, however. Consequences without regard to the further detention enforcement

The first and second process

On 16 May 2005 he was sentenced along with his business partner Khodorkovsky for tax evasion and fraud initially scheduled to nine, in a revision process to eight years in prison. From the autumn of 2005 had Lebedev in a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle, produce barbed wire in Charp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, until he was transferred in February 2009 to Moscow again. There he was mitangeklagt again in a second process as " right hand" and Khodorkovsky found guilty 27 December 2010 for embezzlement of 218 million tons of oil and money laundering in the period from 1999 to 2003. Lebedev and Khodorkovsky were sentenced on December 30, 2010 to six more years in prison. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev thus expected to remain until 2017 in prison. The defense has filed an appeal against the judgment.

The trial of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev and the judgment provoked international criticism loud.

In early February 2011 has announced legal expert examinations for various cases that had triggered a strong response from the public, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Among them is the umstrittenene second verdict against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev. An inset of the government body for the promotion of human rights and civil society will create a report after the effective date of the judgment to criticize procedures.

On 14 February 2011 attended an interview for attention. Natalya Wasiljewa, an assistant of Judge Viktor Danilkin, which served as a court spokeswoman during the process, claimed Danilkin, the judgment by the Russian authorities was imposed. According Wasiljewa the prepared Danilkin of the City Court judgment did not meet the expectations. Therefore, it was from the Moscow Central Court another judgment has been presented that he had to read. Wasiljewa describes in detail in an interview how the political influence should have looked like. Judge Danilkin described the remarks as slander. The Moscow City Court dismissed the allegations, the judgment did not originate from Danilkin back. Wasiljewas comments are nothing more than a provocation.

Prior to the sentencing hearing a statement by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had provided a whirlwind. On 16 December 2010, before the sentence was spoken, Putin said during question time a television program, it was assumed that " the crimes were proven by Mr Khodorkovsky before the Court ". "Every thief goes to prison ," Putin said, referring to the fact that the U.S. billion fraudster Bernard Madoff was " sentenced to 150 years in prison similar crimes " in the USA. As was the Russian justice 14 years old urge against Khodorkovsky, " much more liberal ". Khodorkovsky's lawyer Yuri Schmidt criticized the " direct interference " Putin in the process, is exercised by the pressure on the judge. "This is prohibited by Article 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights ," Schmidt said, and announced that it put forward in an action before the European Court of Human Rights, Khodorkovsky should be condemned. Russian President Medvedev criticized Putin for his remarks on television indirectly: " Neither the President nor any other official has the right to reproduce its position in this case or any other proceedings before the verdict. "

Appeal hearing

On 24 May 2011, a Moscow court of appeal upheld the ruling of the lower court, but reduced the total sentence of one year each. Thus Lebedev and Khodorkovsky must remain in detention until 2016. The reason for the reduction of the sentence, the court assumed a far smaller amount of oil that had been allegedly embezzled.

Reduction of sentence

Due to a new law, a Moscow district court has reduced at the request of the prosecution end of 2012, the prison sentence for both Khodorkovsky and Lebedev for two years. Khodorkovsky was pardoned after a down close to him clemency on December 19, 2013, and released from custody the following day.