.The team of overdue Russian adversary figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the terrible March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing documentation it acquired.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of staff and previous leader of his Anti-Corruption Structure, was struck along with tear gas and also a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland claimed it jailed three suspects in connection with the attack, with Lithuania saying it thought Russian exclusive services were behind the attack." Leonid Nevzlin ordered the beating and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's crew said.Nevzlin is actually the past co-owner of banished Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil firm Yukos. He migrated to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was unhappy with the result as well as really did not pay out the guaranteed $250,000 for the work," the team mentioned, including that it triggered a conflict in between the businessman and the claimed planner of the spell.Navalny's group claimed it found yourself along with audio and also aesthetic documentation of Nevzlin's involvement from a so-called "fixer" called Andrei Matus that was supposedly purchased to appropriate the hit man's phones..Staff Navalny said it had actually set up an appointment along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played a recording of his telephone call with Nevzlin proving the details of the attack on Volkov and 2 various other strikes on exiled opponent members.Group Navalny stated Matus "faded away" soon after learning that they would certainly certainly not have the capacity to pay him for the info. "A few weeks later our company found his products on the [Kremlin-funded broadcaster] Russia Today web site," Staff Navalny pointed out.The Moscow Times could possibly certainly not separately verify any one of the components posted on Navalny's web site.Team Navalny mentioned it thinks "dumb ridiculous hatred" combined along with "political competitors" may possess steered the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually not replied to the accusations, which jeopardize steering a much deeper break in Russia's already fragmented adversary.Replying To Staff Navalny's allegations against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky said: " Either it holds true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has gone mad. Or even it is actually an FSB provocation as well as a phony on which a bunch of amount of money has actually been devoted. Our company have observed such provocations much more than when, for instance, in the Magnitsky instance." Somehow, [Crew Navalny private investigator] Maria Pevchikh with confidence picks the initial model. For perfectly reasonable explanations, I bend in the direction of the 2nd," he carried on, calling for the allegations to become examined through law enforcement.Group Navalny said it notified the law enforcement agencies of countries where Nevzlin is believed to stay and also was ready to turn over its own documents." I can not wrap my scalp around this information yet. Khodorkovsky invested ten years in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar organization. Given that 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a popular vocal in expatriation. (Nevzlin took off to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was under assault from Putin.)," economist and political analyst Konstantin Sonin composed on X (formerly Twitter)." What I may state is that @navalny's staff has possessed an exquisite online reputation in investigative writing. With Alexei and after that without him, they uncovered lots of essential incidents of [the Putin regime's] nepotism, their effect networks, their army hookups, and so on," he wrote.