Russia

Team Navalny Accuses Ex-Khodorkovsky Partner of Purchasing Hammer Assault on Volkov

.The staff of overdue Russian adversary body Alexei Navalny on Thursday indicted a Russian-Israeli billionaire of getting the fierce March attack on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, citing evidence it acquired.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of team and previous chairman of his Anti-Corruption Base, was attacked along with teargas and also a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland said it jailed three suspects about the attack, along with Lithuania stating it reckoned Russian exclusive solutions were behind the strike." Leonid Nevzlin bought the pounding and also kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's staff claimed.Nevzlin is the previous co-owner of banished Kremlin doubter Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil firm Yukos. He migrated to Israel in 2003." But Nevzlin was unhappy with the outcome and really did not pay the guaranteed $250,000 for the work," the group stated, including that it brought about a dispute in between the businessman as well as the alleged planner of the spell.Navalny's group said it found yourself along with sound and aesthetic proof of Nevzlin's engagement coming from an alleged "fixer" named Andrei Matus that was actually reportedly bought to seize the gunman's phones..Group Navalny mentioned it had organized a meeting with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in an audio of his telephone call with Nevzlin substantiating the details of the strike on Volkov as well as 2 various other assaults on banished opposition participants.Group Navalny mentioned Matus "disappeared" right after learning that they would not have the capacity to pay him for the info. "A couple of full weeks eventually our experts viewed his components on the [Kremlin-funded broadcaster] Russia Today web site," Staff Navalny claimed.The Moscow Times can not individually validate any one of the components published on Navalny's site.Staff Navalny stated it thinks "dumb senseless detestation" incorporated along with "political competition" may possess steered the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has certainly not reacted to the accusations, which risk steering a much deeper rift in Russia's currently broken opponent.Reacting To Crew Navalny's allegations versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky pointed out: " Either it is true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has actually freaked. Or it is an FSB justification and also a fake on which a bunch of amount of money has actually been actually invested. Our team have observed such provocations much more than when, for example, in the Magnitsky situation." Somehow, [Crew Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh with certainty chooses the initial variation. For flawlessly logical causes, I lean towards the 2nd," he carried on, asking for the accusations to be checked out through law enforcement.Crew Navalny stated it notified the police department of countries where Nevzlin is actually believed to dwell as well as was ready to surrender its documents." I can easily certainly not cover my scalp around this information yet. Khodorkovsky spent 10 years in jail Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar business. Since 2013, Khodorkovsky was a prominent voice in exile. (Nevzlin ran away to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's empire was actually under assault from Putin.)," financial expert and political analyst Konstantin Sonin composed on X (in the past Twitter)." What I can say is that @navalny's team has actually had a remarkable online reputation in fact-finding journalism. Along with Alexei and then without him, they discovered a lot of crucial episodes of [the Putin regimen's] shadiness, their effect systems, their military hookups, etc," he wrote.