Prosecutor: Lebedeva can be released in 2014

The prosecutor spoke out to mitigate the punishment of the ex-head of Menatep Platon Lebedev from 13 years old and 3 months, RIA Novosti reports. If the Velsky District Court supports the position of the prosecutor, Lebedev will be able to be released in October 2014. The court on Thursday re -considers the request for the defense of Lebedev, which is associated with amendments to the Criminal Code, softening responsibility for economic crimes. According to lawyer Vladimir Krasnov, "a decrease in the term from 13 years to 9 years, that is, to actually departed, will be the closest to legal, fair, and certainly to the humane."

In August, the chairman of the court Viktor Ivanov, who for the first time examined such a petition, reduced the term from 13 years to 9 years and 8 months. By this decision, the former head of Menatep was supposed to be released on March 2, 2013. By a decision of the district court, both parties were unhappy. The prosecutor’s office considered that Lebedev should be reduced only to 11 years and three months, and Lebedev’s lawyers insist on mitigating the punishment to the actually served.

On September 21, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court canceled this decision, agreeing that the Velsky District Court did not defeat such a softening. The higher authority canceled the decision by sending a request to reduce the deadline for a new consideration.

This time, the petition of Lebedev’s lawyers is considered by Judge Nikolai Reasopov. Last summer, he refused Lebedev in parole. Lebedev, as for the first time, will not participate in the hearing, but will remain in the colony.

The decision of the Arkhangelsk Regional Court said that the Velsky District Court did not bring specific circumstances of the case when sentencing and, "committed a violation of the requirements of the common part of the Criminal Code and did not take into account all the circumstances provided for by law, necessary to bring Plato Lebedev in accordance with the current legislation."

As a result, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court considered the decision to reduce the deadline for Lebedev’s conclusion “unfair” and canceled it, sending the case for a second consideration. He obliged the Velsky court in determining the punishment in connection with a decrease in maximum punishment under Art. 174.1 of the Criminal Code "give proper assessment to all legally significant circumstances of the case." Lebedev was convicted not only on this, but also to other articles.