6 Aug 2013 13:20

Russian Supreme Court cuts sentence on Khodorkovsky, Lebedev to ten years and ten months

MOSCOW. Aug 6 (Interfax) - The Russian Supreme Court has reduced by two months the eleven-year sentence on former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev.

The court partially upheld the appeal of the convicts and their defense on Tuesday, an Interfax correspondent reports. The prison time of Khodorkovsky will now end in August 2014, and Lebedev will be released from custody in May 2014.

The Supreme Court declined to repeal the sentence or reduce the prison time to the already served and release the convicts from custody.