.The staff of overdue Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday charged a Russian-Israeli billionaire of getting the fierce March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing proof it acquired.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of staff and also previous leader of his Anti-Corruption Base, was actually assaulted along with tear gas as well as a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland claimed it jailed three suspects in connection with the attack, along with Lithuania claiming it assumed Russian special services lagged the assault." Leonid Nevzlin got the pounding as well as kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's group mentioned.Nevzlin is actually the past co-owner of ousted Kremlin movie critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil firm Yukos. He departed to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was actually miserable with the result and failed to pay out the assured $250,000 for the job," the crew said, including that it brought about a dispute in between the entrepreneur as well as the alleged planner of the spell.Navalny's team said it wound up with audio and also aesthetic documentation of Nevzlin's involvement coming from an alleged "fixer" called Andrei Matus who was reportedly bought to seize the gunman's phones..Team Navalny said it had actually prepared a meeting along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played an audio of his telephone call with Nevzlin supporting the information of the attack on Volkov and two other assaults on banished opposition participants.Staff Navalny pointed out Matus "disappeared" right after discovering that they would certainly not be able to pay him for the info. "A couple of full weeks eventually our experts observed his products on the [Kremlin-funded broadcaster] Russia Today internet site," Staff Navalny stated.The Moscow Moments could not individually confirm any one of the materials published on Navalny's website.Staff Navalny said it thinks "dumb senseless abhorrence" mixed along with "political competitors" may possess steered the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has certainly not reacted to the allegations, which run the risk of driving a deeper rift in Russia's actually broken opponent.Reacting To Crew Navalny's accusations versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky said: " Either it holds true, and afterwards Leonid Nevzlin has actually gone mad. Or even it is an FSB justification and also a fake on which a bunch of money has been actually spent. Our team have observed such justifications greater than the moment, as an example, in the Magnitsky instance." For one reason or another, [Staff Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh with confidence decides on the very first variation. For completely logical causes, I lean towards the second," he continued, calling for the charges to become investigated through law enforcement.Team Navalny claimed it advised the police of countries where Nevzlin is believed to reside and also prepared to give up its files." I can easily certainly not cover my head around this relevant information yet. Khodorkovsky spent 10 years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar company. Due to the fact that 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a prominent vocal in expatriation. (Nevzlin took off to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was actually under assault coming from Putin.)," economist as well as political analyst Konstantin Sonin composed on X (in the past Twitter)." What I may say is that @navalny's team has possessed an exquisite track record in investigative journalism. With Alexei and then without him, they uncovered several vital episodes of [the Putin regimen's] corruption, their influence systems, their military connections, etc," he created.