.The crew of overdue Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of purchasing the fierce March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming proof it obtained.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of staff and also past leader of his Anti-Corruption Foundation, was actually struck with tear gas and a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland mentioned it arrested three suspects about the assault, with Lithuania claiming it believed Russian exclusive services lagged the attack." Leonid Nevzlin purchased the whipping and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's crew mentioned.Nevzlin is actually the past co-owner of ousted Kremlin movie critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil business Yukos. He migrated to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was actually dissatisfied along with the result as well as failed to pay the vowed $250,000 for the job," the staff mentioned, incorporating that it caused a conflict in between the business person as well as the alleged organizer of the spell.Navalny's team claimed it ended up along with audio as well as graphic documentation of Nevzlin's involvement from a so-called "fixer" named Andrei Matus who was reportedly bought to take hold of the hitmen's phones..Crew Navalny mentioned it had actually set up a meeting along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in an audio of his telephone call with Nevzlin affirming the details of the strike on Volkov and also pair of various other attacks on exiled opponent participants.Crew Navalny mentioned Matus "went away" soon after discovering that they would not have the ability to pay him for the relevant information. "A handful of full weeks eventually we saw his materials on the [Kremlin-funded journalist] Russia Today site," Crew Navalny stated.The Moscow Moments could not separately validate some of the materials posted on Navalny's website.Team Navalny claimed it feels "dumb mindless disgust" blended along with "political competition" might possess driven the attack on Volkov..Nevzlin has certainly not responded to the allegations, which jeopardize steering a much deeper rift in Russia's currently ragged opponent.Reacting To Staff Navalny's accusations against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky said: " Either it is true, and after that Leonid Nevzlin has actually freaked. Or even it is an FSB provocation and also a fake on which a lot of amount of money has been actually invested. We have actually seen such provocations much more than once, for example, in the Magnitsky scenario." Somehow, [Group Navalny investigator] Maria Pevchikh with confidence selects the initial model. For wonderfully easy to understand explanations, I bend in the direction of the 2nd," he continued, asking for the charges to become explored by law enforcement.Team Navalny claimed it alerted the law enforcement agencies of countries where Nevzlin is actually thought to dwell and prepared to turn over its own reports." I may certainly not wrap my scalp around this information yet. Khodorkovsky spent one decade in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar business. Given that 2013, Khodorkovsky was a prominent voice in expatriation. (Nevzlin got away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's realm was under attack coming from Putin.)," business analyst as well as political commentator Konstantin Sonin composed on X (previously Twitter)." What I can state is that @navalny's staff has actually possessed an impeccable track record in fact-finding writing. Along with Alexei and then without him, they found several critical episodes of [the Putin regimen's] nepotism, their impact systems, their armed forces hookups, etc," he wrote.