Thieves fleece Chakvetadze for a net $234,000
Russia tennis player Anna Chakvetadze escaped unharmed after several men broke into her house in southwest Moscow early on Tuesday, police said.
Five to six unknown people wearing masks climbed over the fence of the country house at about 4:00am Moscow time, then broke into the house and tied her parents up," a police spokesman was quoted as saying by the Russian media.
"They took money and valuables worth some five million roubles ($A234,041)."
Her father Jamal appeared on Russian television, showing scabbed-over bruises on his scalp, cheek and forehead.
"They started to beat me up, I resisted, then they hit me either with their hands or a pistol," Jamal Chakvetadze told Russian television.
"It was dark, told me I had a child there, reminded me about it, so that I gave them everything. So I did."
Russian tennis chief Shamil Tarpishchev later said that 20-year-old Chakvetadze was not hurt in the incident.
"The most important thing was that no one was hurt. I was told Anna didn't even try to resist the robbers," Tarpishchev said.
Police later said they were looking for suspects but gave no details.
World No.6 Chakvetadze has won four singles titles this year, earning more than $US1.4 million ($1.64 million) in prize money.
This was the latest in a series of violent crimes against high-profile sports figures in Russia and other former Soviet republics in recent years.
Former world top-10 player Andrei Chesnokov was seriously wounded in a shooting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk in November 2005.
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Oh dear...
I sometimes wonder if that is the reason Maria bases herself in the USA as Russia's most highest profile sports figure and probs most famous sportswoman in the world, the Russian mafia would probs be all over her if she was based in Russia...
I heard stories of them trying to get money from Kournikova before even though she is based in USA and her then boyfriend, (can't remember his name) the Russian Ice Hockey player.
Oh well, at least she has a decent reason for crying like a spoilt bitch now :rolleyes:
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| Oh well, at least she has a decent reason for crying like a spoilt bitch now :rolleyes: |
Whoa liam-that's harsh. I would think that with the kind of money Anna's making the family would have an alarm system on their house. :(
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| QUOTE (liam_valid @ Dec 19 2007, 09:15 AM) | | Oh well, at least she has a decent reason for crying like a spoilt bitch now :rolleyes: |
Whoa liam-that's harsh. I would think that with the kind of money Anna's making the family would have an alarm system on their house. :(
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Yeah and a security tema and CCTv etc. How the hell do these people get in? :wacko: