A Moscow court has found jailed Kremlin opponent Alexey Navalny guilty in another controversial trial.
In the trial, which was criticized as a political staging, the judge sentenced the best-known opponent of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin to a further nine years in prison, among other things, for fraud on a particularly large scale.
This was reported by the Interfax agency on Tuesday from the negotiation.
The Russian prosecutor had requested that Navalnyj be transferred to a high-security prison for 13 years on charges of fraud and contempt of court.
According to judge Margarita Kotova, Navalny stole the assets of strangers "by deception and abuse of trust".
The public prosecutor's office had also stated that Navalny had committed crimes in detention and had thus become a repeat offender.
Navalnyj had recently repeatedly called for protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Navalnyj's lawyers reject the allegations and speak of "political persecution".
Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International condemned the trial as a farce.
The father of two had to answer this time for alleged misappropriation of funds for his anti-corruption foundation, which is now banned in Russia, and for insulting a judge in an earlier trial.
According to his supporters, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
The Putin opponent is already serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a prison camp in Pokrov, about 100 kilometers east of Moscow.
The trial was held there.
Navalnyj collapsed on a flight within Russia in August 2020.
First he was treated in Russia, then transferred to the Berlin Charité.
There, poisoning with a nerve agent was determined.
The government in Moscow rejected allegations that Russian authorities had tried to assassinate the opposition figure.
Navalnyj was arrested on his return home in January 2021 and convicted of violating the terms of his probation.