.The team of late Russian opponent figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of purchasing the violent March strike on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming evidence it obtained.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of personnel and previous chairman of his Anti-Corruption Base, was struck along 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 thought Russian special services were behind the strike." Leonid Nevzlin ordered the whipping as well as kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's team stated.Nevzlin is the former co-owner of banished Kremlin doubter Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos. He emigrated to Israel in 2003." However Nevzlin was actually miserable along with the outcome and failed to spend the promised $250,000 for the work," the crew stated, adding that it brought about a dispute in between the business owner and the alleged planner of the spell.Navalny's crew mentioned it ended up along with sound and also visual evidence of Nevzlin's involvement coming from an alleged "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was actually supposedly purchased to seize the hit man's phones..Crew Navalny mentioned it had actually set up a conference with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played a recording of his phone conversation with Nevzlin substantiating the particulars of the attack on Volkov as well as two other attacks on banished adversary participants.Team Navalny stated Matus "vanished" right after knowing that they will certainly not have the capacity to pay him for the relevant information. "A handful of full weeks later on we saw his products on the [Kremlin-funded disc jockey] Russia Today website," Team Navalny mentioned.The Moscow Times can not individually validate some of the materials published on Navalny's web site.Group Navalny said it believes "silly ridiculous disgust" integrated with "political competition" might have driven the attack on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually certainly not replied to the accusations, which risk steering a much deeper break in Russia's currently ragged opposition.Reacting To Crew Navalny's accusations versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky stated: " Either it is true, and after that Leonid Nevzlin has gone mad. Or it is actually an FSB justification as well as a fake on which a considerable amount of amount of money has actually been actually spent. We have seen such justifications much more than once, as an example, in the Magnitsky situation." Somehow, [Team Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh with certainty picks the first model. For flawlessly logical main reasons, I bend in the direction of the 2nd," he carried on, asking for the charges to become looked into by law enforcement.Staff Navalny mentioned it notified the law enforcement agencies of countries where Nevzlin is actually thought to live and prepared to turn over its records." I may certainly not cover my scalp around this information however,. Khodorkovsky spent 10 years in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar service. Given that 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a noticeable voice in exile. (Nevzlin ran away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was actually under attack coming from Putin.)," economic expert as well as political commentator Konstantin Sonin created on X (in the past Twitter)." What I can state is that @navalny's team has possessed an impeccable reputation in investigatory writing. With Alexei and after that without him, they revealed lots of essential incidents of [the Putin routine's] corruption, their influence networks, their army links, etc," he created.