.The group of overdue Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of buying the intense March attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing proof it secured.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of personnel and former leader of his Anti-Corruption Foundation, was struck with tear gas as well as a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland mentioned it jailed three suspects in connection with the attack, with Lithuania stating it assumed Russian exclusive services were behind the assault." Leonid Nevzlin ordered the whipping and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's crew stated.Nevzlin is actually the former co-owner of exiled Kremlin doubter Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil business Yukos. He emigrated to Israel in 2003." But Nevzlin was actually dissatisfied with the outcome and failed to spend the assured $250,000 for the work," the group claimed, adding that it brought about an issue in between the businessman as well as the supposed coordinator of the spell.Navalny's staff stated it wound up along with audio and also visual evidence of Nevzlin's participation from an alleged "fixer" named Andrei Matus who was actually reportedly gotten to appropriate the gunman's phones..Group Navalny claimed it had actually organized an appointment with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played a recording of his telephone call with Nevzlin supporting the information of the attack on Volkov and also 2 other assaults on ousted opponent participants.Crew Navalny pointed out Matus "vanished" right after knowing that they would not be able to spend him for the relevant information. "A few full weeks later our experts found his products on the [Kremlin-funded broadcaster] Russia Today internet site," Group Navalny pointed out.The Moscow Times can certainly not individually verify any one of the products released on Navalny's site.Staff Navalny mentioned it believes "foolish pointless abhorrence" combined with "political competition" may have steered the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has certainly not reacted to the complaints, which risk driving a much deeper break in Russia's actually fragmented adversary.Reacting To Team Navalny's complaints versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky stated: " Either it is true, and afterwards Leonid Nevzlin has freaked. Or it is actually an FSB justification and a phony on which a lot of loan has actually been devoted. Our team have actually found such provocations more than as soon as, as an example, in the Magnitsky case." Somehow, [Team Navalny private investigator] Maria Pevchikh with confidence decides on the very first variation. For perfectly easy to understand factors, I pitch towards the 2nd," he continued, asking for the charges to be examined through law enforcement.Crew Navalny mentioned it notified the police department of countries where Nevzlin is actually believed to live and prepared to surrender its own documents." I can easily not cover my scalp around this info however,. Khodorkovsky spent ten years in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar business. Considering that 2013, Khodorkovsky was a famous vocal in exile. (Nevzlin left to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's realm was actually under attack coming from Putin.)," economist and also political commentator Konstantin Sonin created on X (previously Twitter)." What I can point out is actually that @navalny's staff has possessed a flawless credibility and reputation in fact-finding journalism. With Alexei and after that without him, they found lots of crucial episodes of [the Putin routine's] shadiness, their impact networks, their military connections, and so on," he wrote.