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	Platon Lebedev Press Center
		Platon Lebedev's defense counsel has filed an appeal with the Moscow City Court against the Moscow Zamoskvoretsky Court's ruling to uphold the decision sending him to the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area to serve his sentence.
		Platon Lebedev's lawyers said in the courtroom that a colony in Kaluga Region, which is close to the Moscow Region, had responded to their enquiry that in fact there had been accommodation available there for two persons at the time when Lebedev was sent away.
		According to the lawyers, Lebedev was the victim of “a preconceived attitude” since at the time he was sent away, thirteen other prisoners were sent to regions around Moscow.
	www.lebedevtrial.com /case_trial/appeals/20060227_appeals.cfm (380 words)

	Kommersant: Platon Lebedev Expects Fake Law-Enforcers
		Lebedev circulated through his lawyers a statement saying his enemies in the person of the state may use new provocations and even murder him.
		Platon Lebedev’s lawyer Evgeny Baru told Kommersant correspondent yesterday that the activities of the defense had not ceased after the verdict of Meshchansky Court had been pronounced.
		We were to Platon Lebedev’s yesterday and agreed on some tactic and technical issues.” The lawyers say that Lebedev intends to carry on: “He had no illusions.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=582359 (939 words)

	RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2003/07/04 :: YUKOS arrests are new attack on big business
		Platon Lebedev, one of the most influential Russian businessmen and a co-holder of a controlling stake in Russia's largest oil company YUKOS, was arrested in Moscow on Wednesday.
		Platon Lebedev was arrested on suspicion of stealing a 20-percent stake in JSC Apatit.
		Lebedev are based on the materials obtained during the investigation which was initiated at the request of Vladimir Yudin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma's Committee for Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2003/07/04/opinion07.shtml (721 words)

	Russia Lebedev Blasts the Prosecution
		Platon Lebedev, one of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's closest business partners, gave testimony for the first time in his eight-month trial Monday, avowing his innocence and slamming the prosecution for sloppy work.
		Since the beginning of the trial, Lebedev's lawyers have claimed that he is suffering from cirrhosis of the liver or cancer.
		Lebedev drifted into rambling and sometimes sarcastic explanations on how banks were run and what the political and economic conditions of the early 1990s had been like.
	www.templetonthorp.com /pl/news881 (506 words)

	Khodorkovsky Case, Lebedev - JRL 4-16-04
		Therefore, the failure to release Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in the Russian context is not surprising.
		Lebedev’s attorneys have claimed that he is being denied necessary medical attention.
		Since the arrest of Lebedev last June, there has been widespread speculation that the ultimate goal of this prosecution is the confiscation and redistribution of the wealth of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and their associates.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/8170-13.cfm (5927 words)

	KhodorkovskyTrial.com - Press Center for Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
		Lebedev said in a statement that he did not want to waste his and his lawyers' time on such a "formality" and would rather focus on preparing for dialogue with Russia's Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
		September 2, 2005: Platon Lebedev sent a request to Russia's Prosecutor General's Office demanding a criminal case be launched against a judge in his trial, Irina Kolesnikova, for malicious legal violations against him during court sessions.
		October 19, 2004: Platon Lebedev addresses the court and describes the illegal and unethical steps taken by the prosecutors.
	www.mbktrial.com /about/lebstatements.cfm (364 words)

	Russian Oil Man Arrested; Allies Blame Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The executive, Platon Lebedev, chairman of Menatep, the company that owns 61 percent of the Yukos Oil Company, was arrested on Wednesday.
		Lebedev was convalescing in a hospital when arrested and was led out in handcuffs, a Yukos executive said.
		Lebedev, his close associate, was a blunt message from above to keep Mr.
	www.eng.yabloko.ru /Publ/2003/PAPERS/7/nyt_040703.html (421 words)

	Lebedev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lebedev is a common Russian family name derived from the word lebed - swan.
		Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev - Russian chemist, inventor of synthetic rubber
		There are also the Lebedev Physical Institute and the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering which are named after Pyotr and Sergei, respectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lebedev (131 words)

	Political Persecution of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
		Platon Lebedev is transferred from Lefortovo prison to SIZO #1 in the Matrosskaya Tishina prison.
		Lawyers for Platon Lebedev appeal the decision of the Basmanny Court limiting the time he is given to review the materials of the case brought against him.
		Platon Lebedev refuses to study the Khodorkovsky case file and asks for a copy of Khodorkovsky’s indictment.
	www.supportmbk.com /timeline/index.cfm (8167 words)

	Russia Lebedev Trial Opens, New Fines Requested
		"Platon Leonidovich [Lebedev] does not consider himself guilty and thinks the criminal case was fabricated by the prosecutor's office," lawyer Yelena Liptser told reporters.
		Lebedev was taken into custody last July in the first indication that tough legal action was in store for Yukos.
		Lebedev owned 3.8 percent of Yukos before the oil giant's merger with Sibneft, now in the process of being unwound.
	www.templetonthorp.com /de/news641 (359 words)

	Jailed Menatep Head Accuses Kremlin of Blackmail - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jailed Yukos shareholder and the head of Menatep Platon Lebedev told the court this week that not long before his arrest he had been contacted by a businessman with close ties to the Kremlin administration urging Lebedev to buy his company — worth $23 million — for $350 million.
		Platon Lebedev, along with his long-time ally and business partner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, faces trial on charges of fraud and tax evasion.
		Lebedev also informed the court of an offer he had received from the entrepreneur Vyacheslav Kantor to buy the latter’s firm, estimated by market experts to be worth not more than $23 million, for $350 million.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/03/04/lebedevaccuses.shtml (912 words)

	Pravda.RU:MENATEP: Platon Lebedev is honest taxpayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexander Semenov said it was not clear whether Lebedev himself or MENATEP was being accused of tax evasion.
		He added that the allegation was groundless in either case and said that Lebedev paid significant sums in tax.
		'Platon Lebedev is an honest man and is merely a hostage in the present situation,' said Semenov.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2003/07/28/48887_.html (126 words)

	Yukos defendant's plea turned down - International Business - MSNBC.com
		Platon Lebedev, left, a business associate of Yukos' ex-CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, speaks from a defendant's cage with his lawyer Yevgeny Baru at a courtroom in Moscow Monday.
		Lebedev's defense team says he is suffering from a liver ailment, and he has appeared wan and weak in numerous court appearances since his arrest in July 2003.
		The trial of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is just one component of a complex web of legal cases against Yukos and its owners, which the government insists is part of as a drive against corruption.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5428875 (585 words)

	Further charges against YUKOS co-owner Platon Lebedev were announced Tuesday by Russia's prosecutor general
		Further charges against YUKOS co-owner Platon Lebedev were announced Tuesday by Russia's prosecutor general.
		On top of earlier charges, Lebedev is now accused in the theft of more than USD 30 million from sales of apatite concentrate.
		Lebedev faces charges under five sections of the Russian Criminal Code, including fraud, damage to property, failure to obey a court order and failure to pay taxes.
	www.russiannewsroom.com /send.aspx?id=387 (214 words)

	Khodorkovsky’s Partner Lebedev Moved out of Punitive Cell - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Platon Lebedev, the partner of jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has been moved out of a punishment cell, paving the way for Khodorkovsky to end a hunger strike he started in protest, local media reported.
		Khodorkovsky had been refusing food and water for several days after Platon Lebedev, co-defendant in his trial, was put in a punishment cell.
		Lebedev had been put in a punishment cell after insulting warders at the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center, where he and Khodorkovsky are being held while they wait for an appeal against their conviction to be heard.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/08/26/lebedevcell.shtml (776 words)

	Russia's richest man goes on trial - World News - MSNBC.com
		Former Yukos Chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, and Platon Lebedev, a major shareholder in the oil company, speak as they sit behind bars in court on Wednesday.
		Prosecutors claim that in 1994, Lebedev and other officials of Group Menatep won a 20 percent stake in Apatit, Russia’s largest manufacturer of a key fertilizer component, through a scheme involving fake bidders.
		The court Wednesday rejected a request by Lebedev’s lawyers to release him from jail, Russian media reported, despite an emotional address in which the defendant lamented his separation from his children and grandchildren.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5225447/from/RL.5 (849 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - Platon Lebedev moved to shared cell - Lebedev's lawyer
		Lebedev had spent most of his sentence up until now in a hospital cell.
		Lebedev is being held at the Matrosskaya Tishina prison.
		He was found guilty of fraud and tax evasion on May 31, 2005 and sentenced to nine years in a low-security prison.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20050810/41131542.html (202 words)

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		Lebedev, who is also a major Yukos shareholder and whose net worth was estimated by "Forbes" magazine in March at $1 billion, has been detained without charge for 48 hours and is being questioned in connection with the alleged embezzlement in 1994 of $283 million from a Murmansk-based state-owned company called Apapit, RBK reported.
		Lebedev was invited to join Menatep in 1989 by oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovskii, who founded Menatep a year earlier and who is currently the head of Yukos.
		Newsru.com on 2 July commented that Platon Lebedev, who is 46, is believed to be "the chief financial specialist of the Khodorkovskii empire," and Menatep is the empire's main financial arm.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/07/1-RUS/rus-030703.asp?po=y (2135 words)

	Yukos Owner Renews Offer
		Lebedev's lawyers said he had a liver condition that was rapidly deteriorating.
		Lebedev was recently moved from a more comfortable unit to a 20-man cell.
		Lebedev looked very gaunt and weak during the trial and leaned his head against the bars of the courtroom cage he and Khodorkovsky were sitting in as Kolesnikova rattled through the charges against him at high speed -- and just as quickly rattled through her rejection of his appeal.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2004/07/13/213.html (1449 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Russian tycoon faces new charge
		Platon Lebedev, one of Russia's richest men, is already facing three charges, including theft of state property during a 1994 privatisation deal, and is currently in custody.
		Yukos chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is a close ally of Mr Lebedev and has a personal fortune estimated at $8bn, has been targeted by prosecutors in what is seen as a politically-driven campaign by Kremlin figures.
		Another spokeswoman for the office, Irina Aleshina, said Mr Lebedev had been arrested because he was planning to escape abroad.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3102419.stm (304 words)

	Russian Federation: On the conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovskii and Platon Lebedev - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Amnesty International is concerned that today's convictions of Mikhail Khodorkovskii and Platon Lebedev follow an investigation and trial that included violations of fair trial standards.
		Amnesty International previously set out its concerns about principles of fair trial and provision of medical treatment in detention in the cases of Mikhail Khodorkovskii, Platon Lebedev and other individuals associated with the oil company YUKOS in a public statement on 11 April.
		Amnesty International believes that the concerns in these cases are indicative of wider problems in the criminal justice system in the Russian Federation relating to the independence of the judiciary; access to effective legal counsel; conditions of detention; and the use of torture and ill-treatment in order to extract confessions.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGEUR460202005 (441 words)

	Platon Lebedev Press Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lebedev Lodges Complaint With European Court of Human Rights
		Lawyers for Platon Lebedev said today they had lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against all violations of due process at both first-level courts and courts of appeal in Russia.
		A lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, also serving an eight year prison sentence for the same offenses as Lebedev, said Tuesday a complaint on behalf of his client would be lodged soon.
	lebedevtrial.com /developments/current_status/21Mar2006_complaint.cfm (103 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Khodorkovsky guilt 'fully proven'
		Prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin said Mr Khodorkovsky's guilt and that of Yukos shareholder Platon Lebedev was proven.
		The two are accused of tax evasion and of acquiring 20% of Apatit, a fertiliser company, illegally in 1994.
		Supporters of Mr Khodorkovsky and Mr Lebedev maintain that the Russian state is punishing Mr Khodorkovsky and a number of other Yukos executives because of Mr Khodorkovsky's involvement in Russian politics.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4388887.stm (329 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - Platon Lebedev sent to penal colony in West Siberia - source
		RIA Novosti - Russia - Platon Lebedev sent to penal colony in West Siberia - source
		Platon Lebedev sent to penal colony in West Siberia - source
		MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti) - Former Menatep chairman Platon Lebedev has been transferred to penal colony No. 3 in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous area (West Siberia), the local prosecutor's office for supervision of correctional labor institutions said Thursday.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20051013/41756877.html (168 words)

	Class-action suit filed against Yukos in US - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shokhin stated, when Platon Lebedev was the president of Menatep Bank in 1994, he became a member of an organized criminal group.
		The prosecutor said, Khodorkovsky was supposed to lead and supervise the activities of the group, while Lebedev gave bank guarantees to commercial organizations used to acquire the shares of privatized companies.
		Dmitry Shokhin noted, both Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were aware of the fact that those commercial organizations did not have any indications of a legal entity.
	english.pravda.ru /main/18/89/356/13405_lawsuit.html (538 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Appeal of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev's lawyers on their clients' custody
		The hearings were postponed because Khodorkovsky and Lebedev's defenders are to submit a number of detailed documents to the court.
		Moreover, the Moscow city court is to inquire about Platon Lebedev's state of health at the detention center.
		Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev are charged with 11 offences under seven articles of the Russian Criminal Code.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2004/07/19/55079.html (1453 words)

	Oil execs sentenced to 9 years / Russians also fined 17 billion rubles in faulted prosecution
		Moscow -- Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison for fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion after a 10-month trial shadowed by charges that the prosecution was orchestrated by the Kremlin to crush the political ambitions of a potentially dangerous opponent.
		Khodorkovsky's business partner and co-defendant Platon Lebedev also received a nine-year sentence.
		Khodorkovsky and Lebedev will get 18 months and two years off respectively for time served since their separate arrests in 2003.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/01/MNG87D1IMO1.DTL (564 words)

	JURIST Search Results - lebedev
		[JURIST] Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] and his business partner Platon Lebedev have reportedly been sent to remote prisons [JURIST report] in Siberia and the far north of the country to serve eight-....
		Lebedev lawyers ask for client location, documents on possible charges
		[JURIST] Lawyers for Platon Lebedev, business partner of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archive], said Thursday that they have asked the Russian General Prosecutor's Office for information on the whereabouts of their client....
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /jurist_search.php?q=lebedev (185 words)

	USATODAY.com - Reading at adjourning Yukos trial hints at guilty verdict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The court finished reading summations of the prosecution's case on six of the seven charges against Khodorkovsky and business partner Platon Lebedev.
		The reading's phrasings appeared to give clear indication that both would be found guilty, but the court first must read summations of witness testimony.
		A news report earlier Tuesday said the court had found them guilty on most of the charges, but Yelena Lipster, an attorney for Lebedev, said that the court's readings did not constitute a firm guilty verdict.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-05-17-russia-yukos_x.htm (283 words)

	Yukos - Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Platon Lebedev - Vladimir Putin - Russia - LegalDay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yukos - Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Platon Lebedev - Vladimir Putin - Russia - LegalDay
		Yukos - Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Platon Lebedev - Vladimir Putin - Russia
		Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev both refused bail, trial delayed due to surgery for defence lawyer, meanwhile their company Yukos could be bankrupt by Friday unless separate hearing agrees to accept $3.4b tax payment in equity 17.06.04 Moscow Time
	www.legalday.co.uk /current/cases/yukos.htm (626 words)

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