.The team of overdue Russian adversary figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday implicated a Russian-Israeli billionaire of getting the violent March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming documentation it secured.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of personnel and also past chairman of his Anti-Corruption Structure, was actually struck along with teargas as well as a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland mentioned it arrested 3 suspects in connection with the assault, along with Lithuania stating it felt Russian special services were behind the assault." Leonid Nevzlin ordered the whipping and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's crew mentioned.Nevzlin is the past co-owner of ousted Kremlin doubter Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos. He departed to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was actually dissatisfied with the end result and didn't pay for the promised $250,000 for the job," the team mentioned, incorporating that it led to an issue between the businessman and also the supposed coordinator of the attack.Navalny's team said it wound up with audio as well as graphic evidence of Nevzlin's participation from an alleged "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was actually apparently bought to seize the gunman's phones..Staff Navalny mentioned it had set up a conference along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in an audio of his phone conversation along with Nevzlin proving the information of the strike on Volkov and also 2 various other assaults on exiled adversary participants.Team Navalny stated Matus "faded away" soon after learning that they would certainly not be able to pay him for the information. "A few full weeks later on we observed his products on the [Kremlin-funded broadcaster] Russia Today website," Group Navalny mentioned.The Moscow Times might certainly not independently confirm some of the materials posted on Navalny's site.Staff Navalny mentioned it feels "foolish ridiculous detestation" combined along with "political competitors" may have driven the attack on Volkov..Nevzlin has certainly not responded to the allegations, which jeopardize driving a much deeper break in Russia's already fragmented adversary.Reacting To Group Navalny's allegations against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky mentioned: " Either it is true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has actually freaked. Or even it is an FSB provocation and also a counterfeit on which a considerable amount of loan has been actually spent. Our company have actually seen such justifications more than as soon as, for instance, in the Magnitsky scenario." For one reason or another, [Staff Navalny private investigator] Maria Pevchikh confidently chooses the very first version. For wonderfully easy to understand factors, I pitch in the direction of the 2nd," he carried on, calling for the allegations to be explored by police.Staff Navalny claimed it notified the police of countries where Nevzlin is actually believed to live and was ready to hand over its files." I can easily not cover my head around this information however,. Khodorkovsky invested ten years in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar business. Because 2013, Khodorkovsky was a famous voice in expatriation. (Nevzlin left to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's realm was under assault coming from Putin.)," economic expert and also political analyst Konstantin Sonin wrote on X (in the past Twitter)." What I may say is that @navalny's group has had an impeccable credibility in fact-finding journalism. With Alexei and then without him, they revealed a lot of important incidents of [the Putin regime's] nepotism, their influence systems, their military links, etc," he created.