They tied me up and stole my watch and glasses. Scandalous Russian fighting brothers arrested in Thailand
September 11, 2023, 21:15 Moscow time. Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
Hussein and Khasan Askhabov participated in the robbery.
In March 2022, Russian fighter Khusein Askhabov with a clean record in professional MMA (23-0) signed a contract with the UFC. The Chechen promised to surpass Khabib Nurmagomedov’s achievement (29-0), and then end his career with the championship belt. Furthermore, even then there were suspicions that Hussein “inflated” his record through non-existent fights. And now Askhabov, apparently, has achieved fame, but he came to this in another way. The Phuket News reported that Hussein and his twin brother Hassan were detained by Thai police. They are accused of assault, torture and robbery. It is also noted that they had three accomplices from Kazakhstan.
Cyril Gan performed at the UFC tournament and at that time his house was surrounded by:
He defeated Spivak, but lost his money and his watch. Gan fell victim to robbers during the battle.
According to the report, on the night of September 3, three people broke into the villa of an Italian man while he was sleeping. They tied him up and tried to find out where the disk containing information about cryptocurrency accounts was located. The Italian denied his presence and was beaten. The attackers periodically contacted someone by phone and continued to torture the man, but eventually fled the villa, leaving him bound and gagged. However, they did not leave empty-handed. The victim was robbed of a Rolex Daytona watch worth about 6.5 million rubles, a Patek Philippe Nautilus watch (10.2 million rubles), a GRAFF watch (4.2 million rubles), as well as a MacBook, an iPhone 13, an iPhone 14 and sunglasses. In addition, the attackers took a passport, 3.8 million in cash, a debit card and passwords to a safe, computers and phones.
The Italian himself could not untie himself and simply rolled out into the street, and the people who were there already helped him. The three Kazakhs who helped the Askhabovs, unlike the brothers, quickly got their bearings and left Thailand on the first flight, managing at the same time to withdraw 1.5 million rubles from the stolen card in Dubai. By the way, the victim knew Hussein and Hassan, they met at a beach cafe, but he saw their assistants for the first time.
Thai police have not yet made any statement about the incident, but the Askhabovs remain in custody. They face several years in prison.
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It is worth remembering that this is not the first time that fighters have found themselves in a scandalous situation in Thailand. It all started with the fact that Peter Yan, while training with one of the Chechens, began to hit his injured leg, despite requests that he not do so. A small skirmish began, during which a fighter from Mark Hunt’s team defended Ian and the Askhabovs attacked him. After a massive fight almost broke out in the gym, the trainers separated the fighters. The conflict was not resolved and continued in the afternoon of the same day, and improvised tools could have been used. It all ended when Hunt apologized.
On October 7, Khusein Askhabov was supposed to have his second fight in the UFC; he safely lost the first fight to Jamal Emmers. Daniel Pineda could have become the opponent of the Chechen fighter, but it turned out that the American would not be able to compete in the tournament. And now it turns out that, in principle, Hussein will also have problems participating in battles.
“Dana White is going to be scared by my first fight. I will eat everyone there,” Askhabov said after signing the contract. Apparently, not just the battle.
