A Dubai court sentenced on Monday two men...

Sulim Yamadayev, a Hero of Russia who commanded the elite Vostok Battalion in Chechnya, died in Dubai on March 28, 2009. He was shot in the chest with three bullets from a gold-plated gun in the car park of a luxury apartment complex where he was living with his wife and children.

Tajik businessman Makhsudzhon Ismatov and Iranian Mahdi Lorniya were accused of planning the murder and assisting the man who pulled the trigger. They will be deported to their home countries after serving their terms, which are equivalent to a life sentence in the Gulf state.

Lorniya previously worked in Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov"s stables.

Police said the gun used in the killing had been handed over to them by a Chechen delegation led by Kadyrov that visited the United Arab Emirates in 2008.

The Dubai court rejected in December a request for Kadyrov to be summoned to give evidence at the trial.

The name of the man suspected of pulling the trigger has not been

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