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Igor Sergunin was the only one of the three to plead guilty, according to independent reports, and was given a lighter sentence of three and a half years.
Alexei Liptser was sentenced to five years in a penal colony and Vadim Kobzev was given five and a half years.
Kobzev’s own lawyer, Andrei Grivtsov, said the evidence against them amounted to an illegal invasion of privacy.
“They are not allowed to hear meetings between lawyers and clients in penal colonies in principle – there is a direct legislative ban,” he told BBC Russia.
The three lawyers were tried near the penal colony in Pokrov, where Navalny was initially sent when he returned to Russia in January 2021, after surviving a nerve agent attack he blamed on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin denied the allegations and Navalny remained in a Russian penal colony until his death, north of the Arctic Circle and 1,900km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.
His widow, Yulia Navalnaya, blamed Putin for his death, which authorities put down to “sudden death syndrome”.
