A Moscow court has found jailed Kremlin opponent Alexey Navalny guilty in another controversial trial.
In the process, which was criticized as a political staging, the judge found the best-known opponent of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin guilty of, among other things, fraud on a particularly large scale.
This was reported by the Interfax agency on Tuesday from the negotiation.
According to judge Margarita Kotova, Navalny stole the assets of strangers "by deception and abuse of trust".
The sentence for the 45-year-old opposition politician was initially unclear.
Prosecutors had requested 13 years in prison.
Navalny's lawyers are demanding acquittal.
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 team, he faced up to 15 years in prison.
The Putin opponent is serving a sentence of several years in a penal camp in Pokrov, around 100 kilometers east of Moscow.
The trial was held there.