Two sentenced to 25 years in Dubai prison for aiding killers of Chechen warlord

Dubai jails 2 for 25 years over Chechen slaying

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Dubai court has convicted two men for involvement in the slaying of a former Chechen warlord last year and sentenced them to 25 years in prison.

The two men, an Iranian and a Tajik, were sentenced Monday after being found guilty of aiding and abetting the assassination of Sulim Yamadayev. The men, who authorities did not identify by name, will be deported after serving their sentences.

Yamadayev’s actual assassins are believed to have fled the United Arab Emirates.

The Chechen’s gangland-style killing in a beachfront parking lot in March 2009 stunned Dubai authorities as the first major political assassination in the Gulf city-state.