The 45-year-old dissident is already serving a 2 ½-year sentence at a prison camp for parole violations related to old fraud charges he claims were fabricated to thwart his political ambitions.
Navalny, strongman Vladimir Putin’s most well-known critic, survived a nerve agent attack in 2020 that Russia has denied carrying out.
Investigators accused Navalny of stealing several million dollars worth of donations that were given to his political groups for himself. He has denied the charges.REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo The prosecutor also called for him to pay a fine of 1.2 million rubles, the equivalent of about $11,500.Navalny was jailed last year when he returned to Russia after receiving medical treatment in Germany following the attack with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent, during a visit to Siberia in 2020.
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