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Kadyrov bought back his “stolen” horse in the Czech Republic. He claims to have done so through Ukrainian special services.

Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov bought his horse Zaza for $18,000. By words Kadyrov, he did it through the Ukrainian special services.

“At the beginning of the year, representatives of Ukrainian special services approached me through intermediaries, who offered to buy Zaza. They knew my attachment to horses and lost nothing: of course, I accepted. To be honest, I thought Zazu would somehow be handed over officially, with sanctions lifted on his part, etc. But it turned out that the secret services had a daring plan: they simply staged his theft from a stable in the Czech Republic in collusion with the Czech police,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

The leader of Chechnya added that Zazu was returning home and the amount of ransom for him – $18,000 – is the amount Czech law enforcement estimated his horse to be. He noted that, given the true cost of the stallion and his excellent pedigree, it’s “mere pennies.”

“So, my friends, if you need to bring something from Europe, contact Ukrainian special services. Quickly, professionally, inexpensively, bypassing sanctions,” Kadyrov concluded.

In early March, Czech authorities reported that a 16-year-old thoroughbred English stallion named Zazu had been kidnapped from a stable in the village of Krabcice, at a cost of around 400,000 crowns (around €17,000). Police say that on the night of March 4, the attacker removed a safety chain with a rifle from the sliding stable door and took the horse away.

At the same time, Jezdci.cz noted that the stolen horse belonged to the leader of Chechnya. This information was confirmed by the press officer of the Czech Ministry of Finance Mikaela Lagronova.

Kadyrov, commenting on these posts, called the horse theft not accidental. “Zazu was stolen by strangers. How did this become possible? Was it kept on an isolated farm so they could retrieve it so easily? <…> In general, I do not believe in chance. Horse thieves are somehow unique: stupid to steal a sanctioned horse, and cunning so the police won’t find them. I do not believe”, – writing then he is in his telegram channel.

Three weeks before the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, a couple of Russian-speaking men tried to take away Zaza and another stallion, according to Jezdci.cz. The men reported that the horses were to be moved to a Polish stud farm, the newspaper wrote. The team refused to give them up.

The stolen horse was purchased in 2012 from German stable WH Sport International. The stallion took part in 36 races, of which he won nine and earned more than 1.2 million euros.

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