On April 19, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow found Svetlana Bakhmina, deputy head of the legal department of YUKOS-Moscow, guilty of embezzling funds from Tomskneft. The prosecutor previously asked to sentence Bakhmina to 9 years in prison in a general regime colony. Lawyers insist on her innocence and demand that the case be dropped for lack of evidence of a crime. Svetlana Bakhmina has been in prison for 16 months - she was arrested on December 10, 2004.