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Team Navalny Charges Ex-Khodorkovsky Partner of Acquiring Hammer Assault on Volkov

.The staff of late Russian opponent figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday indicted a Russian-Israeli billionaire of getting the intense March strike on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing proof it acquired.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of personnel and also previous chairman of his Anti-Corruption Structure, was attacked with teargas and a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland claimed it detained 3 suspects in connection with the assault, along with Lithuania mentioning it thought Russian unique companies lagged the assault." Leonid Nevzlin got the whipping and kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's crew claimed.Nevzlin is the previous co-owner of ousted Kremlin doubter Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil business Yukos. He migrated to Israel in 2003." But Nevzlin was miserable along with the outcome and also really did not spend the assured $250,000 for the work," the team claimed, incorporating that it resulted in a conflict between the business owner as well as the claimed planner of the attack.Navalny's group mentioned it ended up along with sound and also visual documentation of Nevzlin's engagement from an alleged "fixer" called Andrei Matus that was supposedly purchased to take hold of the hit man's phones..Team Navalny mentioned it had actually set up a meeting along with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" played a recording of his phone conversation along with Nevzlin proving the details of the strike on Volkov and also 2 other assaults on exiled opposition participants.Staff Navalny mentioned Matus "faded away" not long after discovering that they would certainly certainly not have the ability to pay him for the relevant information. "A few full weeks eventually our team viewed his products on the [Kremlin-funded journalist] Russia Today web site," Group Navalny claimed.The Moscow Times might not independently validate any one of the materials posted on Navalny's website.Team Navalny stated it thinks "foolish mindless hatred" integrated along with "political competitors" might possess steered the assault on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually not reacted to the allegations, which risk driving a deeper break in Russia's already broken adversary.Reacting To Team Navalny's complaints versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky claimed: " Either it holds true, and afterwards Leonid Nevzlin has freaked. Or even it is actually an FSB provocation and also a phony on which a lot of money has actually been actually devoted. Our team have actually observed such justifications greater than the moment, for instance, in the Magnitsky case." For some reason, [Staff Navalny detective] Maria Pevchikh with confidence decides on the initial variation. For perfectly reasonable causes, I pitch in the direction of the 2nd," he carried on, calling for the accusations to be checked out through law enforcement.Group Navalny claimed it advised the police department of nations where Nevzlin is actually believed to stay as well as prepared to turn over its own files." I can not wrap my scalp around this information however,. Khodorkovsky invested one decade in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar service. Due to the fact that 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a popular vocal in exile. (Nevzlin ran away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's realm was under attack coming from Putin.)," financial expert as well as political commentator Konstantin Sonin composed on X (previously Twitter)." What I can easily claim is that @navalny's staff has had a remarkable credibility and reputation in fact-finding writing. Along with Alexei and after that without him, they uncovered several vital episodes of [the Putin program's] nepotism, their effect systems, their army connections, etc," he wrote.