Platon Lebedev
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Platon Leonidovich Lebedev (Russian: Платон Леонидович Лебедев; born 29 November 1956) is a former CEO of Group Menatep, and is best known as the business partner of the embattled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
In June 2003 a criminal investigation was opened into the management of Yukos and affiliated companies on the suspicion that top managers had committed fraud during the privatisation in 1994 of a State-owned company. Lebedev was arrested in July 2003 and charged with fraud. He was convicted in May 2005 and received a nine-year prison sentence for tax evasion from Meshansky Court in Moscow, which was later reduced to eight years by the Moscow City Court. He is currently serving his sentence in the Kharp Prison Colony in the north of Russia.
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