Platon Lebedev is back in Moscow after his release from prison. The business partner of former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was freed late on January 24 from a prison in Russia's ...

but officials at Prison No. 4 in the remote northern town of Velsk said Platon Lebedev did not deserve it. Not only had he lost a pair of cotton prison pants, they said, but he has not admitted ...

The Strasbourg-based court, which considered Khodorkovsky's case together with that of his business partner Platon Lebedev, ruled that the tax-fraud accusations against them had a "healthy core ...

MOSCOW, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s business partner Platon Lebedev walked free on Friday after more than 10 years in prison, following in his better-known ...

As early as Wednesday, Khodorkovsky and fellow defendant Platon Lebedev, another major Yukos shareholder, will file into a cramped Moscow courtroom and hear the verdict of the three-judge court.

Co-defendant Platon Lebedev, Khodorkovsky’s business partner and chairman of Group Menatep, was also sentenced to nine years, and both men were ordered to pay a total of $615 million in taxes ...

The court on Tuesday cut the sentence of Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev to 10 years and 10 months from 11 years. This means Lebedev should now be released in May 2014 and ...

The Russian Supreme Court has ruled to grant immediate release to Platon Lebedev, the jailed business partner of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian news agencies reported. The two partners ...

Now, his partner, Platon Lebedev, is to walk free. Both men spent more than 10 years in prison in a case seen as revenge for Khodorkovsky challenging Putin's economic and political power in the ...

The court reduced a total sentence to Platon Lebedev by three years from 13 to 10 years. So, if this verdict is challenged by the prosecutor’s office, Lebedev will be set free in July 2013.

His lawyer said the same charges were filed against the ex-Yukos chairman's business partner Platon Lebedev. The pair, jailed in 2005, are serving an eight-year term for fraud and tax evasion in the ...