Posted on Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 10:21:55 AM EST in Other Sports
More on: Anna Chakvetadze, tennis, crime, robbery, guns, money (all tags)

If you thought that the curse of money ended with the NFL and the NBA then you'd be wrong. In fact, if you thought greedy, violent criminals and their get-rich-quick schemes were secluded to the United States then you'd be wrong. Turns out those wacky Russians are some aggressive, money-hungry scandals as well.

Tennis star Anna Chakvetadze was tied up by a group of masked men at gunpoint at her home in Russia on Tuesday, robbing her of about $106,000 in cash and around $200,000 in jewelry and other things around her home, according to her father.

Six assailants approached the home outside Moscow before dawn, tied up a maid in another building and forced her to hand over a remote control enabling them to enter the house through the garage, Dzhamal Chakvetadze told NTV television.

"They started to beat me, and I resisted. They hit me over the head with, I think, a pistol butt. It was dark," he said, taking off his cap to show his bruised scalp. "They took out a pistol and told me my child was at home - reminded me - and they told me to hand everything over. I did."

Police and Russia tennis coach Shamil Tarpishchev said the assailants tied up Chakvetadze and her parents, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. Tarpishchev said the 20-year-old player, ranked No. 6, "tried to resist but it was useless," ITAR-Tass reported.

Maybe we're just poor sports bloggers who can't conceive this type of stuff, but $106,000 in cash?!?! Don't you need a special in-house safe like Scrooge McDuck had in his mansion if you're holding that kind of paper? Unless you're Tony Montana, then we say use a freakin' bank.

Oh, and it's probably not advised to advertise your wealth on your website. We understand that everyone already knows you're loaded, but, c'mon, you're just asking for trouble.

I'm sort of embarrassed to admit but I'm into jewelry too, Hehe...One of my weaknesses are sport cars. Ferrari in particular.

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[WCBSTV.com]: Russian Tennis Star Tied Up, Robbed At Her Home

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