MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - The Meshchansky court has sentenced former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and his business partner Menatep head Platon Lebedev to nine years in prison. They will serve their sentence in a general security prison. Volna CEO Andrei Krainov's five-year sentence was suspended. Prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin had sought the 10-year maximum sentence for Khodorkovsky and Lebedev and 5.5-year suspended sentence with a five-year probation period for Krainov.
Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were also ordered to pay 17.395 billion rubles (some $600 million) to the federal tax service.
The court recommended levying 15 million-ruble and 62 million-ruble lawsuits against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev respectively.
The court ordered the conversion of the two men's arrested deposits of $47,210 and 629,700 rubles (about $22,287) to the state.
The court quashed charges of embezzlement of 20% of Apatit stock because the statute of limitations had expired.
