Russian Chess Player Allegedly Poisons Rival Before Match
Dagestani chess player Amina Abakarova allegedly poisoned her opponent with mercury before a chess tournament on August 2, according to Baza, a Russian Telegram news channel.
A security camera video of the chess tournament in the city of Makhachkala shows Abakarova going to her opponent’s, Umaiganat Osmanova, table, sprinkling something close to where she would sit.
“Amina Abakarova from the city of Makhachkala, applied an unidentified substance, which later turned out to contain mercury, to the table where Umaiganat Osmanova from the city of Kaspiisk was set to play against her,” Sazhid Sazhidov, the president of the Russian Republic of Dagestan’s Physical Culture and Sports ministry, confirmed with the Russian state media outlet, TASS.