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Team Navalny Implicates Ex-Khodorkovsky Companion of Buying Hammer Attack on Volkov

.The group of late Russian opponent physique Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of ordering the violent March strike on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming evidence it acquired.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of team and former leader of his Anti-Corruption Foundation, was struck along with teargas and also a hammer outside his house in Lithuania on March 12. Poland stated it apprehended three suspects about the assault, with Lithuania saying it suspected Russian unique solutions were behind the attack." Leonid Nevzlin ordered the whipping and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's crew claimed.Nevzlin is the previous co-owner of banished Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos. He departed to Israel in 2003." Yet Nevzlin was dissatisfied along with the outcome and also didn't pay for the guaranteed $250,000 for the work," the team pointed out, including that it caused a conflict between the business person as well as the supposed coordinator of the spell.Navalny's crew claimed it found yourself along with audio and also visual proof of Nevzlin's engagement coming from a supposed "fixer" called Andrei Matus who was actually apparently bought to appropriate the hitmen's phones..Crew Navalny mentioned it had actually prepared an appointment along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in a recording of his phone conversation along with Nevzlin proving the particulars of the strike on Volkov as well as two various other strikes on banished adversary members.Team Navalny mentioned Matus "went away" not long after learning that they will not have the capacity to spend him for the info. "A couple of full weeks later our company viewed his products on the [Kremlin-funded journalist] Russia Today internet site," Group Navalny said.The Moscow Moments can certainly not independently validate any of the components posted on Navalny's website.Staff Navalny mentioned it feels "foolish purposeless disapproval" combined along with "political competition" might possess steered the assault on Volkov..Nevzlin has not replied to the complaints, which risk steering a much deeper break in Russia's currently ragged opponent.Responding to Crew Navalny's accusations versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky stated: " Either it holds true, and afterwards Leonid Nevzlin has actually gone mad. Or it is actually an FSB provocation as well as a phony on which a great deal of loan has actually been spent. Our company have found such provocations more than the moment, for example, in the Magnitsky instance." For one reason or another, [Crew Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh with confidence opts for the 1st variation. For completely reasonable factors, I pitch towards the second," he proceeded, asking for the allegations to become investigated through law enforcement.Team Navalny claimed it informed the police of countries where Nevzlin is actually thought to live and also prepared to give up its own files." I may certainly not wrap my head around this details however,. Khodorkovsky devoted ten years behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar service. Because 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a famous vocal in exile. (Nevzlin ran away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was actually under attack coming from Putin.)," economic expert as well as political analyst Konstantin Sonin composed on X (in the past Twitter)." What I can mention is that @navalny's team has possessed a remarkable reputation in investigative journalism. With Alexei and afterwards without him, they revealed a lot of crucial incidents of [the Putin routine's] corruption, their effect systems, their armed forces connections, etc," he wrote.