By Will Stewart PUBLISHED: 11:40 EST, 24 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:36 EST, 24 May 2013 Media mogul Alexander Lebedev faces up to five years in jail if found guilty of politically-motivated hooliganism Russian president Vladimir Putin wants Alexander Lebedev 'punished' claimed a witness in the media magnate's trial today. The tycoon faces up to five years in a grim Russian prison if convicted of 'hooliganism motivated by political hatred' for hitting a property tycoon in a television talk show 20 months ago. The suggestion that Putin was seeking harsh treatment for Lebedev - whose family own the Independent titles and the London Evening Standard, and who controls a Russian investigative newspaper - came on a day of angry, heated exchanges in a Moscow court.
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Alexander Lebedev on trial for politically-motivated hooliganism
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Media mogul hit property tycoon Sergei Polonsky during a 2011 debate
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