.The team of late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the fierce March attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing documentation it acquired.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of workers as well as past chairman of his Anti-Corruption Foundation, was struck with tear gas and also a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland claimed it apprehended three suspects among the assault, along with Lithuania claiming it assumed Russian special companies lagged the strike." Leonid Nevzlin purchased the pounding and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's staff stated.Nevzlin is actually the former co-owner of banished Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil provider Yukos. He moved abroad to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was actually dissatisfied with the result as well as failed to pay out the guaranteed $250,000 for the work," the group claimed, including that it caused an issue in between the businessman as well as the supposed coordinator of the attack.Navalny's crew said it found yourself with sound and visual proof of Nevzlin's engagement from an alleged "fixer" called Andrei Matus who was supposedly purchased to take hold of the hitmen's phones..Crew Navalny mentioned it had prepared a meeting along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in a recording of his telephone call with Nevzlin supporting the particulars of the strike on Volkov as well as pair of other assaults on exiled adversary participants.Team Navalny pointed out Matus "vanished" not long after discovering that they would not have the capacity to spend him for the relevant information. "A handful of weeks later on we saw his products on the [Kremlin-funded disc jockey] Russia Today web site," Crew Navalny pointed out.The Moscow Times might not individually confirm any one of the components published on Navalny's website.Staff Navalny claimed it thinks "silly ridiculous disapproval" blended with "political competition" may possess driven the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually certainly not responded to the accusations, which run the risk of driving a much deeper rift in Russia's currently broken opposition.Responding to Staff Navalny's allegations versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky stated: " Either it is true, and after that Leonid Nevzlin has actually freaked. Or it is an FSB justification and also a fake on which a ton of loan has been actually devoted. We have actually observed such provocations more than once, for instance, in the Magnitsky scenario." By chance, [Group Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh with confidence opts for the 1st version. For perfectly easy to understand reasons, I pitch in the direction of the second," he proceeded, asking for the allegations to be explored through police.Staff Navalny stated it notified the police of countries where Nevzlin is thought to reside as well as was ready to entrust its reports." I may not wrap my scalp around this info however,. Khodorkovsky devoted ten years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar organization. Considering that 2013, Khodorkovsky was a noticeable vocal in exile. (Nevzlin got away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was actually under assault from Putin.)," economist and also political commentator Konstantin Sonin created on X (previously Twitter)." What I can claim is that @navalny's staff has had an exquisite track record in fact-finding journalism. With Alexei and then without him, they discovered lots of vital incidents of [the Putin regime's] shadiness, their influence networks, their army connections, etc," he created.