A court of appeals in Dubai overturned life sentences for Iranians, Mahdi Lorniya and Tajik Makhsudzhon Ismatov, both of whom had been convicted of complicity in the murder of Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev. The life sentences were changed to a 27 month prison term for each which means they will be released in six months. Yamadayev, a former battalion commander, a holder of the Hero of Russia medal, and a member of a prominent family which opposed Chechnya’s pro-Kremlin leader Ramzan Kadyrov, was assassinated in the United Arab Emirates in 2009. The Dubai police seem to believe that Yamadayev was shot from a gold-plated gun passed to the murderer by Russia’s State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov via Kadyrov’s horse groom Lorniya. Lorniya was arrested and convicted, and Delimkhanov remains wanted. Kadyrov and Delimkhanov deny involvement. Yamadayev's brother, Ruslan, was shot dead as his car stood at traffic lights in central Moscow in 2008.
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