.The staff of overdue Russian opposition body Alexei Navalny on Thursday charged a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the terrible March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming evidence it acquired.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of personnel and also former leader of his Anti-Corruption Structure, was struck with tear gas as well as a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland mentioned it arrested 3 suspects about the attack, along with Lithuania claiming it suspected Russian unique services were behind the attack." Leonid Nevzlin bought the pounding as well as kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's staff pointed out.Nevzlin is the previous co-owner of exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos. He migrated to Israel in 2003." But Nevzlin was actually miserable with the result and also didn't pay the promised $250,000 for the work," the group stated, including that it resulted in an issue in between the business person as well as the supposed coordinator of the spell.Navalny's team claimed it ended up with sound as well as aesthetic proof of Nevzlin's involvement from a supposed "fixer" named Andrei Matus who was reportedly gotten to seize the hitmen's phones..Team Navalny mentioned it had actually set up an appointment along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in a recording of his phone conversation along with Nevzlin substantiating the particulars of the attack on Volkov as well as 2 other strikes on exiled opposition members.Team Navalny pointed out Matus "vanished" soon after knowing that they would certainly certainly not manage to pay him for the details. "A couple of full weeks later we saw his materials on the [Kremlin-funded journalist] Russia Today website," Staff Navalny said.The Moscow Moments could not individually verify any of the products posted on Navalny's web site.Group Navalny stated it believes "dumb pointless disapproval" mixed with "political competition" might possess driven the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually not responded to the accusations, which run the risk of steering a deeper rift in Russia's already fragmented opposition.Replying To Crew Navalny's complaints against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky stated: " Either it holds true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has actually gone mad. Or even it is an FSB justification and a fake on which a considerable amount of money has been actually invested. We have found such justifications much more than the moment, for instance, in the Magnitsky instance." For one reason or another, [Team Navalny private investigator] Maria Pevchikh confidently opts for the 1st variation. For completely logical main reasons, I lean in the direction of the 2nd," he continued, requiring the accusations to become examined by police.Staff Navalny stated it alerted the police department of countries where Nevzlin is believed to stay and also prepared to surrender its reports." I can certainly not wrap my head around this info yet. Khodorkovsky invested 10 years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar service. Since 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a famous voice in expatriation. (Nevzlin left to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was actually under assault from Putin.)," economic expert as well as political analyst Konstantin Sonin composed on X (previously Twitter)." What I may state is actually that @navalny's staff has had an exquisite online reputation in analytical writing. With Alexei and afterwards without him, they revealed many important episodes of [the Putin regime's] nepotism, their impact networks, their army connections, and so on," he composed.