“As for the person involved, about whom you mentioned, he is generally held in places of imprisonment not for political activity, but for criminal offenses,” the president said.
Putin noted that this is, among other things, a crime against foreign entrepreneurs working in Russia.
In August, the Russian president, commenting on the situation with Navalny, said that "no one should hide behind political activities to carry out business projects, especially in violation of the law."
On February 2, the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow ruled, due to numerous violations, to replace Navalny's suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case with a real one.
According to the lawyer Olga Mikhailova, Navalny will spend 2 years and 8 months in the colony.