.The team of late Russian opponent figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday charged a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the intense March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming proof it obtained.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of personnel and also former leader of his Anti-Corruption Structure, was assaulted along with tear gas and a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland said it detained three suspects in connection with the assault, with Lithuania stating it assumed Russian special companies were behind the assault." Leonid Nevzlin ordered the pounding as well as kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's group pointed out.Nevzlin is 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 dissatisfied with the outcome and really did not spend the guaranteed $250,000 for the work," the staff claimed, incorporating that it resulted in a dispute in between the businessman and also the claimed organizer of the attack.Navalny's crew mentioned it found yourself along with sound and visual evidence of Nevzlin's participation from an alleged "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was actually supposedly ordered to appropriate the gunman's phones..Group Navalny stated it had actually set up a meeting with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in a recording of his telephone call along with Nevzlin proving the particulars of the attack on Volkov and two various other attacks on ousted adversary members.Crew Navalny claimed Matus "faded away" right after finding out that they would certainly not be able to spend him for the info. "A few weeks later we saw his products on the [Kremlin-funded broadcaster] Russia Today internet site," Group Navalny said.The Moscow Moments could possibly not independently confirm any one of the components released on Navalny's internet site.Crew Navalny said it feels "dumb ridiculous disgust" incorporated with "political competition" might possess steered the assault on Volkov..Nevzlin has not responded to the complaints, which run the risk of steering a much deeper rift in Russia's actually fragmented opposition.Responding to Crew Navalny's allegations against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky claimed: " Either it holds true, and afterwards Leonid Nevzlin has gone mad. Or even it is actually an FSB justification and also a phony on which a bunch of amount of money has actually been actually devoted. Our experts have seen such provocations more than as soon as, as an example, in the Magnitsky situation." By chance, [Crew Navalny private investigator] Maria Pevchikh confidently opts for the 1st variation. For wonderfully understandable explanations, I pitch in the direction of the second," he carried on, calling for the allegations to be checked out by police.Crew Navalny claimed it notified the police department of countries where Nevzlin is actually thought to live and also was ready to hand over its documents." I can certainly not wrap my head around this details yet. Khodorkovsky devoted 10 years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar business. Due to the fact that 2013, Khodorkovsky was a prominent voice in expatriation. (Nevzlin took off to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's realm was actually under assault from Putin.)," financial expert and political analyst Konstantin Sonin composed on X (in the past Twitter)." What I can easily point out is actually that @navalny's staff has actually had an impeccable credibility in analytical news. Along with Alexei and afterwards without him, they discovered numerous important episodes of [the Putin program's] corruption, their influence systems, their military relationships, and so on," he wrote.