russian businessman platon lebedev was jailed for his involvement in russia's infamous you cost scandal as his prison term for corruption reduced by three years he'll walk free next july thomas says the details. his sentence was reduced from thirteen years that to ten years by a local court in our town girls let me take you a little bit back and through it to get to where we were today in two thousand and five both men were convicted of tax evasion and then they were retried in two thousand and ten and then convicted of stealing oil from their company now last year dimitri medvedev who was then president introduced legislation to soften white collar crimes specifically favoring financial penalties as opposed to criminal sentences that therefore decriminalizing the more white collar crimes basically saying that these were not violent offenders and they shouldn't be treated as such so they would be financially punished instead now this set the course if you will for the decision of this of a lessening of this sentence the bit of lawyers have said that this is the closest thing that they c