.The group of overdue Russian opponent shape Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of buying the violent March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming documentation it secured.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of team and also previous chairman of his Anti-Corruption Structure, was actually attacked with tear gas as well as a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland mentioned it arrested three suspects in connection with the attack, with Lithuania claiming it believed Russian exclusive services were behind the assault." Leonid Nevzlin got the whipping and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's staff pointed out.Nevzlin is the previous co-owner of ousted Kremlin movie critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos. He emigrated to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was dissatisfied along with the outcome and also really did not pay for the assured $250,000 for the work," the crew mentioned, including that it resulted in an issue in between the business person and also the alleged planner of the attack.Navalny's crew mentioned it ended up with audio and also visual proof of Nevzlin's engagement from an alleged "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was actually apparently gotten to appropriate the hit man's phones..Group Navalny said it had organized a meeting along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in a recording of his phone conversation along with Nevzlin corroborating the information of the strike on Volkov and also pair of other strikes on exiled opponent members.Team Navalny mentioned Matus "disappeared" not long after finding out that they would certainly certainly not be able to pay him for the relevant information. "A few full weeks later on our company observed his products on the [Kremlin-funded broadcaster] Russia Today website," Group Navalny said.The Moscow Moments might not independently verify any of the materials released on Navalny's website.Team Navalny said it believes "silly ridiculous disgust" integrated along with "political competition" might possess steered the assault on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually certainly not responded to the accusations, which take the chance of steering a much deeper rift in Russia's already fragmented adversary.Reacting To Team Navalny's allegations against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky pointed out: " Either it is true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has freaked. Or even it is actually an FSB justification and also a counterfeit on which a considerable amount of cash has actually been actually devoted. Our team have actually seen such provocations greater than once, for instance, in the Magnitsky instance." Somehow, [Team Navalny detective] Maria Pevchikh with certainty decides on the initial version. For wonderfully logical explanations, I lean in the direction of the second," he continued, calling for the claims to become checked out through law enforcement.Team Navalny stated it notified the police of countries where Nevzlin is believed to stay and prepared to give up its own records." I can easily certainly not cover my head around this details however,. Khodorkovsky devoted 10 years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar organization. Considering that 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a noticeable vocal in expatriation. (Nevzlin fled to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was under attack coming from Putin.)," business analyst as well as political analyst Konstantin Sonin created on X (previously Twitter)." What I can easily state is actually that @navalny's group has possessed a flawless reputation in investigative news. With Alexei and then without him, they uncovered a lot of crucial incidents of [the Putin regimen's] corruption, their influence networks, their army relationships, and so on," he composed.