MOSCOW, June 28 – RAPSI. Former Menatep head Platon Lebedev's attorney Vladimir Krasnov has asked the prosecutor general to sort out his appeals against the prosecutors who have refused to release Lebedev on parole, his press center told the Russian Legal Information Agency on Thursday.

The press center presents the interests of Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who previously headed the YUKOS oil giant.
According to the press center, the prosecutor general received his initial appeal in March, but the “regular replies that have been made have neither satisfied Lebedev nor his defense.”

His attorneys expected that the prosecutor general would open a criminal case against the prosecutors who are believed to have made illegal decisions regarding Lebedev’s parole.

The last appeal to the prosecutor general was a summary of the claims made by the attorneys against the prosecutor general's bodies.

In late 2010, a Moscow district court sentenced Khodorkovsky and Lebedev to 14 years in prison for oil theft and money laundering. They were to be released in 2017, taking into consideration the time they had already served for their convictions from their first trial in 2005.

However, on May 24, the Moscow City Court reduced their sentences by one year and now they are expected to be released in 2016.