Russia: Lebedev, the former associate Khodorkovsi, granted an early release

The former partner of Mikhail Khodorkovsky received this Friday for an early release on the orders of the supreme Court of Russia. Platon Lebedev had been sentenced in 2005 with the oil, which had pardoned him, ex-magnat the month last by the president Vladimir Poutine. Lebedev should be released next may, but the Russian justice decided to shorten his sentence. So, it can get out of jail today.
Recognized guilty of tax evasion, Platon Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky are still liable to pay 17 billion rubles, or 365 million euros of tax arrears.
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