On the night of March 4, in the village of Krabchitse in the Czech Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov's thoroughbred horse was stolen, the cost of which is almost 18 thousand dollars. However, the Chechen dictator insists that he is actually worth as much as $10 million.
It should be noted that the thoroughbred horse, nicknamed Zazu, was arrested back in 2014 as part of the sanctions against Kadyrov. So all this time he was in the Czech Republic, Channel 24 reports.
Not 18 thousand, but 10 million dollars
The fact that the horse belonged to Kadyrov was admitted by the dictator himself in a long message in his telegram channel. He was immediately indignant at the reliability of the law enforcement system of the Czech Republic and said that instead of Chechnya, you can leave the car open for the night.
Kadyrov also made an absurd statement that the 16-year-old stallion was really worth $10 million, and the Czech law enforcers underestimated the cost of Zazu. According to him, they did it for the sake of “some financial fraud.”
Moreover, the protege of the Kremlin is convinced that now, “having learned his true price, someone will warm their hands well.” However, if he is so sure of this, why reveal the alleged true value of the animal?
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Interestingly, according to the Czech media, three weeks before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two Russian-speaking men were already trying to smuggle Zaza and Mikhail Glinka, Kadyrov's other arrested horse, out of the Czech Republic. Then they argued this with an alleged instruction to transfer the dictator's horses to Polish stud farms.
Then the men were refused because of a valid contract and suspicious circumstances of the whole story, spent several days in a van parked nearby, after which they left. They managed to take with them only a transporter in the colors of the stable, which had not been used for several years anyway.
What is known about Zaza and his kidnapping: briefly
- The police said that the 16-year-old horse has an irregularly shaped white star mark on its forehead, and the part of the right hind leg below the ankle joint is also white.
- According to Czech media, the head of the occupation administration of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, bought the horse in 2012 to participate in the most expensive race in the world – the World Championship in Dubai.
- After 2 years, Zaza, as well as two more horses of Kadyrov, were arrested under the sanctions. The dictator commented in his contemporary message as “a vile blow from the democratic West.”
- On March 4, 2023, the horse was stolen by unknown people. According to local law enforcement officers, the thief removed a chain with a carbine from the sliding door and carried away the breeding stallion.
