{"id":10858,"date":"2026-09-23T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/human-stories\/platon-lebedev-yukos\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:39:44","slug":"platon-lebedev-yukos","status":"publish","type":"iae_story","link":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/human-stories\/platon-lebedev-yukos\/","title":{"rendered":"Platon Lebedev \u2014 Yukos case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platon Lebedev was Mikhail Khodorkovsky\u2019s business partner and one of Yukos\u2019s shareholders. His story is linked to the company\u2019s breakup and the lengthy criminal proceedings against its executives.<\/p>\n<p>Lebedev was arrested on 2 July 2003. He received a sentence in the first case in 2005 and a new sentence in 2010. After more than ten years in detention, he was released on 24 January 2014. In 2013, the European Court of Human Rights considered his application together with Khodorkovsky\u2019s, found certain Convention violations, but did not find a violation of Article 18 in relation to the alleged political motive for the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, an investment arbitration tribunal ruled that the investments of former Yukos shareholders had been indirectly expropriated. This finding concerned the investment dispute and was not a separate ruling on Lebedev\u2019s personal liability.<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Platon Lebedev, 2009. Wikimedia Commons \/ Khodorkovsky and Lebedev press centre, CC BY 3.0 (credit as stated in the client-provided case file).<\/small><\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/eng?i=001-122697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khodorkovskiy and Lebedev v. Russia, Applications Nos. 11082\/06 and 13772\/05<\/a> \u2014 European Court of Human Rights (HUDOC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khodorkovsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Section-A.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Materials concerning the implementation of the ECHR judgment and Platon Lebedev\u2019s release<\/a> \u2014 Materials submitted by a party to the case<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/investment-dispute-settlement\/cases\/213\/yukos-universal-v-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yukos Universal Ltd. v. Russian Federation, PCA Case No. AA 227<\/a> \u2014 UNCTAD Investment Policy Hub<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Dates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2 July 2003 \u2014 Arrest.<\/strong> Platon Lebedev was arrested in July 2003.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005 \u2014 First conviction.<\/strong> According to the case file, Lebedev and Khodorkovsky received lengthy sentences in 2005.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010 \u2014 Second conviction.<\/strong> According to the case file, new sentences were imposed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>24 January 2014 \u2014 Release.<\/strong> Released after more than ten years in detention.<\/li>\n<li><strong>18 July 2014 \u2014 Investment arbitration award concerning former Yukos shareholders.<\/strong> The tribunal ruled in a dispute between former shareholders and the Russian Federation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikhail Khodorkovsky\u2019s business partner and a Yukos shareholder; released in January 2014.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10894,"template":"","iae_country":[122],"iae_topic":[],"iae_story_status":[],"class_list":["post-10858","iae_story","type-iae_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","iae_country-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iae_story\/10858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iae_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/iae_story"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iae_story\/10858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10890,"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iae_story\/10858\/revisions\/10890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"iae_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iae_country?post=10858"},{"taxonomy":"iae_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iae_topic?post=10858"},{"taxonomy":"iae_story_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iae-association.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iae_story_status?post=10858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}