Alexei Navalniy and his brother Oleg get received suspended prison sentences for a corrupt deal whereby they overcharged the company Yves Rocher for mail deliveries that they then outsourced to super cheap couriers.

Yves Rocher then sued the brothers. Interestingly Navalny runs a popular anti-corruption blog. However, he still managed to act in a corrupt way himself, in his dealings with this French company.

As far as western press is concerned, this is political persecution of a major opposition figure in Russia. But wait, how did "Putin" convince Yves Rocher to participate?

The Guardian
Putin critic’s supporters say prison sentence for his brother shows Kremlin returning to Soviet-era practice of punishing relatives
Well, did her cheat a French company, or not?
If he did, the sentence is fair. If not it is political persecution.

But why would a French company sue somebody in order to pursue political persectution of dissidents in Russia. Looks to me that Navalniy actually did rip somebody off and in that case he's not very credible to be blogging about anti-corruption.