.The staff of overdue Russian opponent physique Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the fierce March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing documentation it obtained.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of personnel as well as previous chairman of his Anti-Corruption Foundation, was struck with tear gas and a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland claimed it imprisoned three suspects in connection with the assault, with Lithuania mentioning it felt Russian exclusive solutions were behind the strike." Leonid Nevzlin got the pounding and kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's crew said.Nevzlin is actually the past co-owner of ousted Kremlin movie critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos. He moved abroad to Israel in 2003." However Nevzlin was dissatisfied with the outcome and also failed to pay for the assured $250,000 for the job," the group claimed, including that it brought about a disagreement in between the business owner and the claimed coordinator of the spell.Navalny's group stated it ended up along with audio and aesthetic evidence of Nevzlin's participation coming from a so-called "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was supposedly purchased to take hold of the gunman's phones..Crew Navalny mentioned it had set up a meeting with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in an audio of his telephone call with Nevzlin affirming the information of the assault on Volkov and two various other strikes on banished opposition members.Staff Navalny stated Matus "disappeared" soon after knowing that they would certainly certainly not be able to pay him for the information. "A couple of full weeks later our experts observed his products on the [Kremlin-funded journalist] Russia Today web site," Crew Navalny claimed.The Moscow Times can certainly not individually verify any one of the materials posted on Navalny's web site.Staff Navalny stated it feels "stupid pointless abhorrence" integrated with "political competitors" may have steered the assault on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually certainly not reacted to the complaints, which run the risk of driving a deeper rift in Russia's actually ragged adversary.Responding to Staff Navalny's allegations against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky said: " Either it holds true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has actually gone mad. Or it is actually an FSB provocation as well as a phony on which a considerable amount of loan has been devoted. Our company have viewed such justifications greater than the moment, as an example, in the Magnitsky case." By chance, [Staff Navalny investigator] Maria Pevchikh confidently picks the first version. For flawlessly understandable explanations, I pitch in the direction of the 2nd," he carried on, calling for the claims to be investigated through police.Team Navalny said it informed the police department of countries where Nevzlin is actually believed to dwell as well as prepared to entrust its own files." I can easily not wrap my scalp around this details however,. Khodorkovsky devoted 10 years in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar service. Since 2013, Khodorkovsky was a noticeable vocal in exile. (Nevzlin got away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was under assault coming from Putin.)," economist and also political commentator Konstantin Sonin created on X (formerly Twitter)." What I may mention is that @navalny's crew has actually had a remarkable online reputation in fact-finding journalism. Along with Alexei and then without him, they found numerous crucial incidents of [the Putin regime's] shadiness, their impact networks, their armed forces relationships, and so on," he wrote.