A stallion purportedly owned by the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was stolen from a private stable in the Czech Republic’s Krabčice municipality.
The 16-year-old thoroughbred nicknamed Zazou, worth $18,000, disappeared from the stable the night before March 4, report the local media.
The Czech police has confirmed the fact of the animal’s disappearance. Police detectives think that the thief removed the safety chain from the sliding barn door and led the horse away.
Jezdci, a Czech publication covering horsemanship and races, writes that Kadyrov had purchased Zazou in 2012, and then brought him to Krabčice from Dubai. In 2014, Zazou became part of Kadyrov’s sanctioned European property.
In March 2022, the local media reported another attempt to take Zazou from the stable, together with a second Kadyrov-owned horse. About a month before Russia invaded Ukraine, two Russian-speaking men came to the barn claiming they had to move the horses to Poland. After the barn owner refused to cooperate, they spent five days camping in their trailer not far from the barn.
