.The team of late Russian adversary body Alexei Navalny on Thursday charged a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the intense March attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing evidence it obtained.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of team and also former chairman of his Anti-Corruption Structure, was actually assaulted along with teargas and also a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland mentioned it arrested 3 suspects about the assault, along with Lithuania mentioning it thought Russian exclusive solutions were behind the attack." Leonid Nevzlin ordered the pounding and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's staff stated.Nevzlin is the previous co-owner of banished Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil business Yukos. He moved abroad to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was actually unhappy with the end result and failed to pay out the vowed $250,000 for the job," the team said, adding that it resulted in an issue between the business person and also the claimed planner of the attack.Navalny's group stated it found yourself along with audio and graphic documentation of Nevzlin's engagement from a so-called "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was actually reportedly gotten to take hold of the hit man's phones..Staff Navalny claimed it had prepared a meeting along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played a recording of his telephone call with Nevzlin supporting the information of the assault on Volkov as well as two various other assaults on exiled opposition members.Group Navalny said Matus "went away" soon after knowing that they would certainly certainly not manage to spend him for the info. "A couple of weeks later our company found his components on the [Kremlin-funded journalist] Russia Today website," Team Navalny pointed out.The Moscow Times might certainly not separately validate some of the products released on Navalny's internet site.Team Navalny mentioned it feels "silly pointless disgust" integrated along with "political competitors" might have steered the attack on Volkov..Nevzlin has not reacted to the accusations, which risk driving a deeper break in Russia's actually ragged opponent.Replying To Group Navalny's complaints versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky pointed out: " Either it holds true, and after that Leonid Nevzlin has actually freaked. Or it is actually an FSB provocation as well as a fake on which a considerable amount of cash has been actually devoted. We have found such provocations much more than once, as an example, in the Magnitsky situation." For one reason or another, [Crew Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh with certainty selects the initial model. For completely understandable reasons, I lean in the direction of the 2nd," he carried on, calling for the claims to become examined through police.Staff Navalny said it alerted the police department of nations where Nevzlin is thought to reside and also was ready to entrust its reports." I can certainly not cover my scalp around this information however,. Khodorkovsky spent ten years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar company. Due to the fact that 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a prominent voice in exile. (Nevzlin fled to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was under assault from Putin.)," business analyst as well as political commentator Konstantin Sonin created on X (in the past Twitter)." What I can mention is that @navalny's group has possessed an exquisite credibility in fact-finding journalism. Along with Alexei and then without him, they revealed many critical episodes of [the Putin regime's] nepotism, their influence systems, their army links, etc," he wrote.