.The team of overdue Russian opposition body Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of purchasing the violent March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming documentation it acquired.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of personnel and also former chairman of his Anti-Corruption Base, was attacked along with teargas as well as a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland claimed it arrested three suspects in connection with the attack, along with Lithuania stating it believed Russian unique solutions were behind the strike." Leonid Nevzlin purchased the pounding and kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's group pointed out.Nevzlin is actually the previous co-owner of banished Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos. He moved abroad to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was actually miserable along with the end result as well as really did not pay the promised $250,000 for the job," the staff mentioned, incorporating that it brought about a disagreement between the businessman and also the alleged organizer of the spell.Navalny's crew mentioned it wound up with audio and also visual documentation of Nevzlin's engagement coming from an alleged "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was reportedly bought to appropriate the gunman's phones..Staff Navalny claimed it had prepared an appointment along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played a recording of his phone conversation along with Nevzlin affirming the details of the attack on Volkov and also pair of other strikes on banished opposition members.Team Navalny claimed Matus "vanished" soon after knowing that they would certainly certainly not have the ability to spend him for the information. "A couple of full weeks eventually we saw his materials on the [Kremlin-funded broadcaster] Russia Today web site," Crew Navalny mentioned.The Moscow Moments could possibly not individually confirm any one of the materials released on Navalny's website.Staff Navalny stated it believes "stupid mindless detestation" mixed along with "political competitors" might have steered the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has not reacted to the accusations, which risk steering a much deeper rift in Russia's actually ragged adversary.Responding to Team Navalny's accusations versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky stated: " Either it is true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has actually freaked. Or even it is actually an FSB provocation and also a fake on which a lot of money has actually been actually spent. Our experts have actually observed such justifications greater than the moment, for example, in the Magnitsky case." By chance, [Team Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh with confidence opts for the first variation. For flawlessly understandable explanations, I pitch towards the 2nd," he continued, asking for the charges to become investigated by law enforcement.Staff Navalny claimed it alerted the police of countries where Nevzlin is thought to stay as well as was ready to surrender its own files." I can not wrap my head around this information however,. Khodorkovsky devoted 10 years in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar organization. Because 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a prominent voice in expatriation. (Nevzlin left to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was actually under assault from Putin.)," business analyst and political analyst Konstantin Sonin composed on X (formerly Twitter)." What I can claim is actually that @navalny's staff has actually had an impressive online reputation in investigatory writing. Along with Alexei and then without him, they uncovered lots of critical episodes of [the Putin routine's] corruption, their impact systems, their armed forces hookups, and so on," he created.