Platon Lebedev met with his lawyer Aleksey Miroshnichenko this week, after Russia’s Supreme Court upheld his ‘guilty’ verdict and reduced his sentence by just two months in August 2013.

Lebedev and Miroshnichenko discussed the content of the supervisory appeal against the 2010 original guilty verdict  – handed down to Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in Moscow’s Khamovnichesky court in 2010 –  which had sentenced both men to fourteen years in prison, along with other consequent decisions of higher courts. The August judgement also concluded that the three billion dollar profit made by Yukos was in fact a ‘loss’.

Aleksey Miroshnichenko said: “We agreed on the text of the appeal against the ‘Khamovnichesky’ verdict and subsequent acts of the superior courts. Now, the Presidium of the Supreme Court will have to evaluate the surprising conclusions of the chairman of the Supreme Court’s judges’ panel, Magomed Megomedov, and his colleagues that a profit of three billion dollars is supposedly an actual damage.”