Moscow, May 24 (Interfax) - The state prosecutors do not see reasons for cutting prison terms "under the second Yukos case" to Yukos's former co-owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev, even though the size of misappropriated assets incriminated to them has been seriously cut.
"Given the state prosecutors’ decision to cut down the size of the misappropriated assets, we insist that the size of oil, misappropriated by the defendants, be reduced, too," Prosecutor Valery Lahti said in the court.
But he said that the state prosecutors "do not see reasons for cutting prison terms for Khodorkovsky and Lebedev."
Moscow’s Khamovnichesky court earlier sentenced each to 14 years in a general prison for misappropriating oil and money laundering.
