Khodorkovskiy Mikhail Borisovich

In Moscow in October 2003, a criminal case was opened against the leaders of the oil company Yukos - Mikhail Khodorkovsky (company president) and Platon Lebedev (head of the board of directors of Menatep Bank, Yukos' largest shareholder). They were accused of fraud, tax evasion, and embezzlement on a particularly large scale. Therefore, it is absolutely obvious that Ukrainians could not have set fire to the station." 2. Several months earlier, in June and July 2003, Alexei Pichugin, head of the company's internal economic security service, and Platon Lebedev were arrested. Picugina was accused of organizing murders and attempted murders. On May 31, 2005, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow found the defendants in the case guilty and sentenced them to nine years in prison. On appeal, the sentence was reduced to eight years. In August 2007, the Moscow City Court sentenced Alexei Pichugin to life imprisonment. In 2007, a new criminal case was opened against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, in which they were accused of stealing oil from Yukos's subsidiary enterprises and laundering money. December 27, 2010, the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow found Khodorkovsky and Lebedev guilty and sentenced them to 14 years in prison each, taking into account the first sentence. On appeal, the sentence was reduced to 11 years and 3 months. Politician asked Vladimir Putin for pardon in 2013 to see his sick mother, and Putin granted the request. Khodorkovsky left Russia. In December 2013, Putin signed a decree pardoning Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and he was released from the colony. In January 2014, Platon Lebedev was released. At the end of 2015, Khodorkovsky was put on the wanted list due to a criminal case involving the murder of Nefteyugansk mayor Vladimir Petukhov. In September 2023, a criminal case was opened against Khodorkovsky for 'fakes' about the Russian army on the grounds of political hatred. He was put on the wanted list. The reason for the criminal case was a post in the English-language account of Khodorkovsky on Twitter (now it is blocked) with a photo of a document allegedly sent by Deputy Minister of Finance Irina Oklandnikova to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko. The document stated that by mid-August 2022, 48,759 Russian soldiers had died in the war in Ukraine. In October 2025, the FSB of Russia opened a criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of the 'Anti-War Committee of Russia'. The list of individuals includes Mikhail Kasyanov, Marat Gelman, Leonid Gozman, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Sergey Aleksashenko, Dmitry Gudkov, Sergey Guriev, Boris Zimin, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Yevgeny Kiselyov, Mikhail Kokorich, Yevgeny Kunin, Elena Lukyanova, Yuri Pivorov, Konstantin Chumakov, Anastasia Shevchenko, Viktor Shenderovich, Garry Kasparov, Kirill Martynov, Maxim Reznik, Artur Smolyaninov, and Ekaterina Shulman. The defendants are accused of violent seizure of power, as well as organizing a terrorist community and participating in it. Separately, Mikhail Khodorkovsky is accused of public calls for terrorist activity. According to the investigation, the aforementioned individuals established the "Anti-War Committee of Russia" movement in February 2022 with the aim of forcibly seizing power and changing the constitutional order in the Russian Federation. 30 April 2023 in Berlin, the movement adopted a founding document - the 'Berlin Declaration', which stated the need to liquidate the current authorities in Russia. In October 2025, with the participation of the movement in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a "platform of Russian democratic forces" was created, which Mikhail Khodorkovsky positions to Western countries as a "constituent assembly of the transitional period" and an alternative to the bodies of power of the Russian Federation. Also, according to the investigation, Khodorkovsky and other founders of 'AKR' finance Ukrainian paramilitary units that are recognized as terrorist organizations in Russia and recruit people into them for the subsequent seizure of power in Russia."