MOSCOW, August 20 (RAPSI) - Moscow's Lyublinsky District Court has ordered Tuesday opposition activist Alexei Navalny to pay 600,200 rubles (about $17,000) in compensation to the city's Deputy Mayor Maxim Liksutov who claimed to be defamed, RAPSI reported from the courtroom.

Navalny wrote in his blog that Liksutov and his wife owned assets abroad and concealed the fact. The city's administration claimed that to be false and said that Liksutov complied fully with the federal law which prohibits government officials to own assets, including real estate, abroad.

Liksutov was said to own shares of Intellectico Holding Limited, a Cyprus-based company.

He vowed to have signed the documents to sell his stake in the company in December 2012.

Liksutov filed a libel suit against Navalny seeking 1.5 million rubles ($41,540) in damages. The court granted his lawsuit in part.

Navalny is a prominent Russian opposition activist and politician. He participated in Moscow mayoral elections in 2013. He runs one of the most popular sociopolitical blogs, which was put on the blacklist as it encouraged people to participate in unauthorized public events.

Navalny has also been implicated in several criminal cases.

Navalny and his brother Oleg stand accused in a fraud case involving cosmetics company Yves Rocher Vostok. Investigators allege that the Navalny brothers embezzled upwards of 26 million rubles ($717,792) from the cosmetics company, as well as upwards of 4 million rubles ($110,430) from the Multidisciplinary Processing Company by way of a fraud scheme. The brothers were further charged with having laundered 21 million rubles.

Alexei Navalny who remains under house arrest has already been given a suspended sentence of five years for the embezzlement of funds owned by Kirovles company.