Editing Platon Lebedev (section)

{{Short description|Russian businessman}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Family name hatnote|Leonidovich|Lebedev|lang=Eastern Slavic}}{{Infobox criminal
| name              = Platon Lebedev
| image             = Platonlebedev250.jpg
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1956|11|29|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = Moscow, [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_date        = 
| death_place       = 
| alma_mater        = [[Plekhanov Russian University of Economics]]
| conviction        = [[Tax evasion]], [[money laundering]], [[embezzlement]]
| partners          = [[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]
| caption           = Lebedev in 2009
| native_name_lang  = ru
| native_name       = {{nobold|Платон Лебедев}}
}}

'''Platon Leonidovich Lebedev''' (Russian: Плато́н Леони́дович Ле́бедев; born 29 November 1956) is a Russian businessman and former CEO of [[Group Menatep]]. He was convicted of tax evasion, money laundering and embezzlement by Russian courts in two cases and imprisoned from July 2003 to January 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title=Khordorkovsky associate Platon Lebedev to be released|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25858870|work=[[BBC News]]|date=23 January 2014|access-date=24 September 2019}}</ref> He is best known as a close associate of [[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/russian-court-denies-lebedev-his-freedom-560172.html|title= Russian court denies Lebedev his freedom|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=24 September 2019|location=London|date=16 April 2004}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>