.The staff of overdue Russian opposition physique Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the fierce March attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming documentation it secured.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of team and also former leader of his Anti-Corruption Groundwork, was actually assaulted with tear gas and a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland said it apprehended 3 suspects among the attack, along with Lithuania saying it presumed Russian special companies lagged the strike." Leonid Nevzlin ordered the whipping as well as kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's team mentioned.Nevzlin is actually the former co-owner of banished Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil firm Yukos. He departed to Israel in 2003." However Nevzlin was actually unhappy along with the outcome and didn't pay the promised $250,000 for the job," the staff said, incorporating that it triggered a dispute between the businessman and also the claimed organizer of the spell.Navalny's group mentioned it found yourself along with audio as well as aesthetic evidence of Nevzlin's participation from a so-called "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was actually supposedly ordered to appropriate the gunman's phones..Staff Navalny claimed it had set up a conference with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played a recording of his phone conversation with Nevzlin substantiating the particulars of the assault on Volkov and also two other attacks on banished opponent participants.Team Navalny claimed Matus "went away" right after learning that they would not manage to spend him for the details. "A handful of full weeks later we found his products on the [Kremlin-funded journalist] Russia Today web site," Team Navalny claimed.The Moscow Times can not independently confirm some of the products posted on Navalny's internet site.Team Navalny claimed it believes "foolish senseless hatred" mixed along with "political competitors" may have steered the assault on Volkov..Nevzlin has not replied to the accusations, which run the risk of driving a much deeper rift in Russia's already fragmented opponent.Responding to Crew Navalny's accusations against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky stated: " Either it holds true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has gone mad. Or it is actually an FSB justification as well as a phony on which a ton of funds has actually been spent. We have actually observed such justifications more than the moment, as an example, in the Magnitsky case." By chance, [Team Navalny investigator] Maria Pevchikh confidently decides on the first model. For completely logical main reasons, I bend towards the 2nd," he proceeded, requiring the allegations to become examined through law enforcement.Group Navalny stated it notified the police of nations where Nevzlin is actually believed to dwell as well as was ready to entrust its records." I can certainly not cover my scalp around this information however,. Khodorkovsky invested 10 years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar service. Due to the fact that 2013, Khodorkovsky was a famous voice in exile. (Nevzlin fled to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was actually under assault coming from Putin.)," economic expert as well as political commentator Konstantin Sonin created on X (formerly Twitter)." What I can mention is that @navalny's crew has actually possessed a flawless credibility in analytical news. With Alexei and then without him, they uncovered numerous vital episodes of [the Putin routine's] shadiness, their effect networks, their military relationships, etc," he wrote.