The case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky was transferred to the judge considering the case of the head of Menatep Platon Lebedev

The case of the ex-head of the Tax Code of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky was transferred to the judge of the Meshchansky court of Moscow Irina Kolesnikova, who considers the case of the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev , and previously made a decision in relation to the former head of Yukos-Moscow Vasily Shakhnovsky . This was announced on Thursday by "Interfax" one of Khodorkovsky’s lawyers.

He explained that the preliminary hearing in the case of the ex-head of the Yukos under the law should be scheduled within 10 days from the date of receipt of the case to the court. Since the case was received on Monday, May 17, a preliminary hearing should be held no later than May 27.

Recall that the Meshchansky court on Thursday postponed until May 28 the consideration of the criminal case of Plato Lebedev in connection with the defense petition, which asked to unite the case of the head of the MFI Menatep in the same proceedings with the Khodorkovsky case.

Khodorkovsky’s lawyer also did not rule out that during the preliminary hearing, the defense of the ex-head of the Yukos would ask to combine these cases. "It is possible that the judge will satisfy these petitions," he said.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation accuses Platon Lebedev of the fact that he, working as president of OJSC CB Menatep (Bank Menatep) and being a member of the Board of Directors of the AOZT MFI Menatep and LLP, a joint Russian-Swiss enterprise Russian Trust and Trade, entered the organized group of persons under the leadership of the chairman of the board of directors of these structures Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was created "with the aim of taking possession of the shares of Russian enterprises during the period of privatization."

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, Platon Lebedev, together with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, "led the activities of this group in the process of committing crimes." According to investigators, he also had to issue bank guarantees to sub-senior commercial organizations, on behalf of which shares on the fulfillment of financial obligations were fraudulently acquired, which were taken when applying for transactions of sale, knowingly knowing that these obligations would not be fulfilled.

In total, Lebedev, like Khodorkovsky, is charged with 11 episodes of unlawful activities, which are provided for by seven articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The Prosecutor General’s Office accuses Lebedev of fraud organized by a large -scale group, of causing property damage by deception or abuse of trust, in failure to fulfill the court decision, tax evasion, both as an individual and as part of a group of persons by preliminary conspiracy, in assignment or embezzlement.