Russia

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

.The staff of overdue Russian adversary figure Alexei Navalny on Thursday accused a Russian-Israeli billionaire of getting the terrible March assault on Navalny ally Leonid Volkov, naming documentation it got.Volkov, Navalny's ex-chief of workers and also previous chairman of his Anti-Corruption Base, was actually struck with teargas as well as a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on March 12. Poland said it arrested 3 suspects about the attack, along with Lithuania saying it reckoned Russian unique services were behind the assault." Leonid Nevzlin got the pounding and kidnapping of Volkov," Navalny's team pointed out.Nevzlin is the previous co-owner of ousted Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's now-defunct oil company Yukos. He departed to Israel in 2003." But Nevzlin was miserable with the result as well as didn't pay for the vowed $250,000 for the job," the team claimed, adding that it led to a conflict in between the business owner and the claimed planner of the attack.Navalny's group mentioned it wound up with audio and graphic proof of Nevzlin's involvement from an alleged "fixer" called Andrei Matus who was reportedly gotten to seize the hit man's phones..Team Navalny stated it had arranged a conference with Matus in Montenegro, where the "fixer" participated in an audio of his telephone call with Nevzlin proving the details of the assault on Volkov and two other assaults on ousted opposition participants.Staff Navalny pointed out Matus "disappeared" not long after discovering that they would certainly not manage to spend him for the details. "A handful of full weeks later on we viewed his materials on the [Kremlin-funded disc jockey] Russia Today internet site," Team Navalny pointed out.The Moscow Times could not independently validate some of the products released on Navalny's site.Team Navalny claimed it believes "dumb ridiculous detestation" mixed with "political competition" may possess steered the strike on Volkov..Nevzlin has actually certainly not replied to the allegations, which run the risk of driving a deeper break in Russia's already fragmented adversary.Replying To Crew Navalny's accusations versus Nevzlin, Khodorkovsky claimed: " Either it holds true, and then Leonid Nevzlin has actually gone mad. Or even it is an FSB justification as well as a fake on which a considerable amount of loan has been actually spent. We have observed such provocations much more than once, as an example, in the Magnitsky case." For some reason, [Crew Navalny private detective] Maria Pevchikh with confidence decides on the first variation. For perfectly reasonable explanations, I pitch towards the second," he carried on, requiring the accusations to become examined through law enforcement.Team Navalny said it advised the police department of countries where Nevzlin is actually believed to stay and was ready to hand over its documents." I can certainly not cover my head around this info yet. Khodorkovsky invested one decade behind bars Putin expropriated his multi-billion-dollar company. Since 2013, Khodorkovsky was actually a popular vocal in expatriation. (Nevzlin took off to Israel in 2003, when Khodorkovsky's realm was under assault from Putin.)," financial expert and also political analyst Konstantin Sonin created on X (in the past Twitter)." What I may mention is that @navalny's staff has actually possessed an impeccable online reputation in fact-finding writing. Along with Alexei and after that without him, they uncovered many important incidents of [the Putin regimen's] corruption, their impact networks, their armed forces relationships, and so on," he composed.