.The team of late Russian opposition body Alexei Navalny on Thursday charged a Russian-Israeli billionaire of buying the violent March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming evidence it obtained.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of staff and also previous chairman of his Anti-Corruption Structure, was assaulted with tear gas and also a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland mentioned it imprisoned three suspects in connection with the attack, along with Lithuania claiming it felt Russian special companies lagged the assault." Leonid Nevzlin purchased the pounding and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's staff stated.Nevzlin is the previous co-owner of banished Kremlin movie critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil firm Yukos. He migrated to Israel in 2003." However Nevzlin was actually dissatisfied along with the end result and failed to pay for the vowed $250,000 for the job," the team said, adding that it triggered a conflict in between the businessman as well as the supposed planner of the spell.Navalny's crew mentioned it found yourself with audio as well as graphic documentation of Nevzlin's participation from an alleged "fixer" called Andrei Matus that was supposedly bought to appropriate the gunman's phones..Group Navalny mentioned it had set up a conference along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played a recording of his phone conversation along with Nevzlin affirming the details of the assault on Volkov as well as 2 various other attacks on ousted adversary members.Group Navalny claimed Matus "went away" right after learning that they would certainly not have the capacity to spend him for the info. "A few weeks eventually our experts found his components on the [Kremlin-funded disc jockey] Russia Today website," Team Navalny claimed.The Moscow Moments can certainly not independently validate any of the products published on Navalny's website.Crew Navalny mentioned it feels "silly ridiculous hatred" blended along with "political competition" may have steered the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has certainly not responded to the allegations, which jeopardize steering a deeper rift in Russia's presently ragged adversary.Replying To Team Navalny's allegations against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky claimed: " Either it is true, and after that Leonid Nevzlin has actually gone mad. Or it is actually an FSB provocation and also a fake on which a great deal of cash has actually been actually devoted. Our experts have actually observed such justifications more than once, for instance, in the Magnitsky case." By chance, [Staff Navalny private investigator] Maria Pevchikh with confidence decides on the initial version. For flawlessly logical factors, I lean towards the 2nd," he proceeded, calling for the allegations to be examined through law enforcement.Team Navalny stated it advised the law enforcement agencies of countries where Nevzlin is actually believed to live and also was ready to turn over its own reports." I can not cover my scalp around this details however,. Khodorkovsky invested ten years in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar business. Due to the fact that 2013, Khodorkovsky was a popular vocal in exile. (Nevzlin ran away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was under assault coming from Putin.)," economist as well as political commentator Konstantin Sonin composed on X (formerly Twitter)." What I may mention is actually that @navalny's staff has actually possessed an impressive reputation in investigative writing. Along with Alexei and then without him, they uncovered numerous crucial episodes of [the Putin program's] nepotism, their effect systems, their armed forces hookups, and so on," he composed.