Platon Lebedev

Platon Lebedev
Платон Лебедев
Lebedev in 2009
Born (1956-11-29) 29 November 1956
Alma materPlekhanov Russian University of Economics
ConvictionsTax evasion, money laundering, embezzlement
AccompliceMikhail Khodorkovsky

Platon Leonidovich Lebedev (Russian: Плато́н Леони́дович Ле́бедев; born 29 November 1956) is a Russian businessman and former CEO of Group Menatep. He was convicted of tax evasion, money laundering and embezzlement by Russian courts in two cases and imprisoned from July 2003 to January 2014. He is best known as a close associate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.