.The team of overdue Russian opponent physique Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of purchasing the violent March attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming documentation it secured.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of personnel and also previous leader of his Anti-Corruption Structure, was actually struck along with tear gas and a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland said it detained three suspects in connection with the assault, along with Lithuania claiming it suspected Russian special services lagged the attack." Leonid Nevzlin got the whipping and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's crew stated.Nevzlin is actually the past co-owner of ousted Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil business Yukos. He migrated to Israel in 2003." But Nevzlin was actually miserable with the outcome and really did not spend the assured $250,000 for the job," the team stated, incorporating that it resulted in a disagreement in between the businessman as well as the alleged organizer of the spell.Navalny's group stated it ended up along with audio as well as aesthetic proof of Nevzlin's engagement from a so-called "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was actually apparently ordered to take hold of the hit man's phones..Staff Navalny stated it had actually prepared a meeting along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played an audio of his phone conversation with Nevzlin affirming the information of the attack on Volkov as well as pair of various other assaults on ousted opposition members.Team Navalny stated Matus "faded away" soon after discovering that they would not manage to pay him for the information. "A handful of weeks later on our team viewed his components on the [Kremlin-funded disc jockey] Russia Today website," Crew Navalny stated.The Moscow Moments could not separately verify any of the components released on Navalny's site.Group Navalny said it believes "silly pointless abhorrence" combined with "political competition" may possess steered the assault on Volkov..Nevzlin has certainly not reacted to the allegations, which jeopardize driving a much deeper break in Russia's already ragged opponent.Replying To Crew Navalny's allegations versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky said: " Either it holds true, and afterwards Leonid Nevzlin has freaked. Or even it is actually an FSB provocation as well as a phony on which a lot of funds has been devoted. Our experts have actually seen such provocations much more than the moment, as an example, in the Magnitsky instance." For some reason, [Team Navalny investigator] Maria Pevchikh confidently opts for the first version. For flawlessly logical main reasons, I pitch in the direction of the 2nd," he continued, calling for the charges to be checked out by police.Crew Navalny stated it informed the police of countries where Nevzlin is believed to dwell as well as prepared to surrender its own files." I may certainly not cover my head around this details yet. Khodorkovsky spent 10 years in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar business. Given that 2013, Khodorkovsky was a popular vocal in exile. (Nevzlin ran away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's realm was under assault from Putin.)," business analyst as well as political commentator Konstantin Sonin composed on X (previously Twitter)." What I can easily state is actually that @navalny's crew has actually possessed an exquisite online reputation in fact-finding writing. With Alexei and then without him, they discovered lots of important incidents of [the Putin program's] corruption, their effect systems, their military hookups, etc," he wrote.