MENATEP READY TO PAY KHODORKOVSKY & LEBEDEV'S FISCAL DEBTS

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MOSCOW, March 25 (RIA Novosti) - Leonid Nevzlin, Mikhail Brudno and Vladimir Dubov-Menatep transnational finance group co-proprietors-are determined to pay fiscal arrears claimed on Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, say Khodorkovsky's PR.

"We are willing to pay the entire private taxation arrears assumed by a civil suit against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev," says their statement, as quoting Nevzlin.

"The Khodorkovsky and Lebedev trial is a blatant political frame-up, and has nothing to do with the law. We have said so on a number of instances. Even though neither defendant pleaded guilty on whatever clause of their indictment, and there is nothing to prove their guilt, we are ready to do everything we can to bring the state's claims on them down to the least," emphasized Leonid Nevzlin.

Khodorkovsky's friends will pay the sum fiscal agencies are claiming, he announced today. The civil suit claim on the Yukos ex-proprietor makes roughly 54 million rubles on private taxation alone (R27.70/$1 is the Central Bank rate for today).

"As my lawyers told me today, my friends have determined to pay for Platon and me," he said in courtroom.

The prosecution accuses Platon Lebedev, Menatep CEO, of private tax evasion to seven million rubles.

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