2003 Arrest of Platon Lebedev

15 years ago, on July 2, 2003, Platon Lebedev, chairman of the board of directors of MFO Menatep, was arrested as part of the Yukos case. He was accused of embezzlement during the privatization in 1994 of 20% of the shares of the Apatit mining and processing plant (Murmansk region) in the amount of damage to the state in the amount of $ 280 million, failure to comply with a court decision, abuse of power and tax evasion.

The Yukos case was initiated at the request of State Duma deputy Vladimir Yudin on the legality of the 1994 privatization of the Apatit plant by Mikhail Khodorkovsky's structures.