D.Grishkin

On Friday, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court dismissed the cassation appeal against the denial of parole for the former head of the Menatep financial institution, Platon Lebedev. The ruling to deny the defense's cassation appeals was read by Judge Mikhail Klochkov, the website Khodorkovsky.ru reported. This means that the denial of parole for Lebedev was recognized as lawful. According to Article 175 of the Criminal Executive Code, the former head of Menatep or his defense will be able to file a new petition for early release only in six months, i.e. not before spring.

Lebedev's lawyers appealed the legality and validity of the Velsky District Court's decision on the client's parole in cassation proceedings. Let us recall that on July 27, Judge Nikolai Raspopov found that Lebedev had not repented of his crime, "the dynamics of Lebedev's behavior do not confirm his intention to behave lawfully," and denied the prisoner parole.

The representative of the Velsk colony administration, Anatoly Korsunsky, announced that Lebedev's early release was "inappropriate" because he had not taken the path of correction. During his time in prison, he received more than 20 penalties, two new ones - already in the colony in Velsk. One - for "loss of the established model of the HB suit" (according to Lebedev, the suit was stolen). The second - for impolite treatment of a colony employee (he asked the captain of the internal service Kudrin: "When did you, Sergei Nikolaevich, go to the local area?").

Lebedev's defense was based on the fact that repentance is not a mandatory condition for parole, and that the defendant does not need to sit in prison to correct them. The law requires the convicted person to compensate for the damage or otherwise make amends for the harm caused by the crime. But all civil claims brought against Lebedev should be considered extinguished, insisted Lebedev's lawyer Konstantin Rivkin.

Platon Lebedev denied parole