.The team of overdue Russian opponent body Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the violent March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing proof it obtained.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of team as well as previous chairman of his Anti-Corruption Groundwork, was attacked along with teargas and also a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland mentioned it arrested three suspects among the assault, with Lithuania saying it assumed Russian special solutions were behind the strike." Leonid Nevzlin ordered the whipping as well as kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's crew pointed out.Nevzlin is actually the former co-owner of banished Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil provider Yukos. He emigrated to Israel in 2003." However Nevzlin was actually dissatisfied with the outcome as well as didn't pay out the assured $250,000 for the work," the group mentioned, including that it led to a dispute in between the business person and the alleged planner of the attack.Navalny's group stated it ended up with audio and also visual documentation of Nevzlin's participation from a so-called "fixer" called Andrei Matus that was apparently bought to take hold of the hitmen's phones..Crew Navalny mentioned it had actually organized a meeting with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in an audio of his telephone call along with Nevzlin supporting the details of the strike on Volkov as well as 2 other strikes on exiled opposition participants.Team Navalny stated Matus "faded away" soon after knowing that they would certainly not manage to spend him for the details. "A few full weeks eventually our company saw his components on the [Kremlin-funded disc jockey] Russia Today web site," Crew Navalny stated.The Moscow Times could not independently validate any of the materials published on Navalny's internet site.Crew Navalny said it feels "stupid ridiculous disapproval" integrated along with "political competition" may have driven the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually certainly not responded to the allegations, which jeopardize steering a deeper break in Russia's presently ragged opposition.Reacting To Staff Navalny's complaints versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky claimed: " Either it is true, and after that Leonid Nevzlin has freaked. Or even it is actually an FSB provocation and a phony on which a bunch of funds has actually been actually devoted. Our team have found such justifications more than when, as an example, in the Magnitsky scenario." For some reason, [Crew Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh confidently decides on the 1st model. For completely reasonable main reasons, I lean towards the 2nd," he proceeded, asking for the allegations to be checked out by police.Team Navalny said it advised the law enforcement agencies of nations where Nevzlin is actually thought to stay and prepared to turn over its records." I may not wrap my head around this information however,. Khodorkovsky spent 10 years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar organization. Due to the fact that 2013, Khodorkovsky was a popular vocal in expatriation. (Nevzlin fled to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was under assault coming from Putin.)," business analyst as well as political analyst Konstantin Sonin created on X (previously Twitter)." What I can claim is that @navalny's crew has actually possessed an impeccable track record in fact-finding news. Along with Alexei and after that without him, they discovered several vital incidents of [the Putin program's] corruption, their effect systems, their armed forces relationships, and so on," he composed.