The prosecutor's office demanded the seizure of more than a billion rubles from Khodorkovsky and Lebedev

The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded that money be seized from the bank accounts of YUKOS founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former head of MENATEP Platon Lebedev to compensate for damages from tax crimes. This was reported by TASS , RIA Novosti and Interfax, citing their sources.

In total, 986 million rubles and 1.8 million dollars from the accounts of Trust Bank are going to be transferred to the state's revenue. As TASS reports, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit due to non-compensation of almost 17.5 billion rubles in damages from tax crimes.

RIA Novosti recalls that, according to court findings, Khodorkovsky and Lebedev established the company Group MENATEP Limited to illegally transfer proceeds from the sale of oil and oil products to an offshore company in Gibraltar, which was subsequently “used for personal enrichment.”

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were involved in the YUKOS case and were sentenced to nine years in prison in 2005. The court found them guilty of tax evasion, theft of property, document forgery, and embezzlement or misappropriation of someone else's property by an organized group and on a large scale.

In 2013, Khodorkovsky was pardoned by Vladimir Putin and immediately left the country. In May 2022, the country's once richest businessman was added to the register of "foreign agents." In September 2023, a criminal case was opened against Khodorkovsky for military "fakes" (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) due to publications about Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Lebedev's prison term was reduced by the Supreme Court. He was released in January 2014.

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