.The team of overdue Russian opponent shape Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of getting the violent March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing proof it got.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of staff and previous leader of his Anti-Corruption Foundation, was actually assaulted along with tear gas and a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland said it detained 3 suspects among the assault, with Lithuania saying it thought Russian special services were behind the strike." Leonid Nevzlin got the whipping and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's staff pointed out.Nevzlin is actually the past co-owner of banished Kremlin movie critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos. He moved abroad to Israel in 2003." However Nevzlin was dissatisfied along with the result as well as failed to spend the guaranteed $250,000 for the work," the crew claimed, incorporating that it caused an issue in between the business person and the supposed organizer of the attack.Navalny's group said it wound up along with audio and also visual proof of Nevzlin's involvement coming from a supposed "fixer" called Andrei Matus who was apparently ordered to appropriate the gunman's phones..Group Navalny said it had actually set up a conference along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in an audio of his phone conversation along with Nevzlin corroborating the particulars of the strike on Volkov as well as pair of other strikes on banished opponent participants.Crew Navalny claimed Matus "vanished" soon after learning that they would certainly not manage to pay him for the information. "A handful of weeks later on our team found his components on the [Kremlin-funded broadcaster] Russia Today web site," Staff Navalny claimed.The Moscow Moments could certainly not independently verify some of the products released on Navalny's web site.Staff Navalny mentioned it strongly believes "stupid purposeless abhorrence" incorporated with "political competitors" may possess driven the attack on Volkov..Nevzlin has certainly not replied to the complaints, which risk driving a deeper break in Russia's already fragmented opponent.Responding to Team Navalny's allegations versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky said: " Either it holds true, and afterwards Leonid Nevzlin has actually gone mad. Or even it is actually an FSB justification and also a counterfeit on which a ton of funds has been spent. We have actually seen such provocations much more than as soon as, for example, in the Magnitsky case." For one reason or another, [Crew Navalny investigator] Maria Pevchikh with confidence selects the initial variation. For flawlessly understandable explanations, I pitch in the direction of the 2nd," he continued, requiring the claims to be examined by police.Staff Navalny said it notified the police department of countries where Nevzlin is actually believed to dwell and also prepared to surrender its own files." I can not cover my scalp around this relevant information however,. Khodorkovsky spent one decade behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar business. Due to the fact that 2013, Khodorkovsky was a prominent voice in expatriation. (Nevzlin got away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was actually under assault coming from Putin.)," economist and political commentator Konstantin Sonin composed on X (formerly Twitter)." What I can state is actually that @navalny's group has had an impressive credibility and reputation in analytical journalism. Along with Alexei and afterwards without him, they revealed many critical episodes of [the Putin program's] shadiness, their impact networks, their armed forces relationships, etc," he composed.