.The group of overdue Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday implicated a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the fierce March attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing proof it obtained.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of team and also past chairman of his Anti-Corruption Groundwork, was actually attacked with teargas and also a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland mentioned it jailed three suspects among the attack, along with Lithuania saying it thought Russian unique companies were behind the assault." Leonid Nevzlin bought the whipping as well as kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's team pointed out.Nevzlin is the previous co-owner of ousted Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil provider Yukos. He departed to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was unhappy along with the end result and didn't pay the guaranteed $250,000 for the work," the staff claimed, adding that it brought about a dispute between the business person and also the claimed planner of the attack.Navalny's crew mentioned it found yourself with audio as well as visual proof of Nevzlin's engagement from an alleged "fixer" called Andrei Matus that was actually apparently ordered to take hold of the hitmen's phones..Crew Navalny said it had set up a meeting along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played an audio of his phone conversation with Nevzlin affirming the particulars of the strike on Volkov and also pair of various other strikes on ousted opposition members.Group Navalny claimed Matus "went away" soon after discovering that they would certainly not have the ability to pay him for the details. "A couple of full weeks eventually our team found his materials on the [Kremlin-funded disc jockey] Russia Today website," Staff Navalny pointed out.The Moscow Moments could possibly not separately confirm some of the products posted on Navalny's internet site.Staff Navalny said it believes "foolish pointless abhorrence" combined with "political competitors" may possess driven the assault on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually not reacted to the complaints, which take the chance of driving a much deeper rift in Russia's already broken opposition.Responding to Group Navalny's accusations against Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky said: " Either it is true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has actually gone mad. Or it is an FSB provocation and a phony on which a ton of funds has actually been actually invested. Our experts have actually viewed such justifications much more than as soon as, for instance, in the Magnitsky case." By chance, [Crew Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh with confidence selects the very first model. For completely reasonable causes, I pitch in the direction of the second," he proceeded, requiring the claims to be examined through law enforcement.Team Navalny claimed it notified the police department of countries where Nevzlin is thought to live as well as was ready to entrust its documents." I can not wrap my head around this info yet. Khodorkovsky invested 10 years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar business. Considering that 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a famous voice in expatriation. (Nevzlin got away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's realm was actually under assault coming from Putin.)," business analyst and also political analyst Konstantin Sonin composed on X (in the past Twitter)." What I can claim is actually that @navalny's team has actually possessed an impressive credibility in investigatory news. With Alexei and afterwards without him, they uncovered numerous important incidents of [the Putin regimen's] nepotism, their influence networks, their military links, etc," he composed.