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StellarCrowandClaude Fable 5.1 499fd61f79 feat(sources): fetch linked URLs for the 252 spreadsheet-only cases 
Until now only cases 357+ (plus a few older ones) had their linked URLs
fetched; the other 252 dossiers held just the text pasted into the
spreadsheet, often only the lede. This pass fetches every linked URL for
those cases so the full text is on file before link rot takes it.

- stage_all.py: new --include-sheet-cases flag that lifts the skip on
  cases holding spreadsheet articles. Resumable as before.
- staging/: raw extracts and index.json for the 252 cases.
- sourced-articles.json, case-files-manifest.json: 188 new UNTRIMMED
  blocks. 179 cases gained at least one fetched article; 73 got none
  (49 BLOCKED, 18 THIN, 9 DEAD, 4 video/social, 3 ERROR).
- sources/*.txt: rebuilt with build_cases.py --all. Sheet pastes are
  kept; fetched blocks sit beside them under the NOT YET TRIMMED banner.
  Files previously committed with CRLF are now LF.
- wayback-availability.json: Wayback snapshots exist for 73 of the 98
  failed URL slots; input for an archive-fetch pass.
- README-START-HERE.md: progress note and next step.

verify_all.py PASSES (1836 checks).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZENdTLzNGsbNy4DyF1yt
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CASE 161 | Italian man | September 3, 2023 | Thailand
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DATABASE RECORD
id 161
date September 3, 2023
original_date September 3, 2023
year 2023
month 9
quarter 2023-Q3
victim Italian man
location Phuket, Thailand
country Thailand
scenario Home Invasion
description Russian MMA fighter & twin brother rob man of watches, seek Ledger wallet.
kidnappings 1
violence_torture 1
drugs_alcohol 0
weapons 0
theft 1
life_taken 0
money_wanted (null)
coin_type (null)
reports PhuketNews
notes Invaded his hotel, took from his room, beaten, stolen valluables , he denied to own a Ledger wallet
has_processed_date 1
created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45
AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources]
**Victim:** Italian man
**Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators
**Attack Method:** Home Invasion - victim kidnapped
**Violence Used:** Physical violence
**Crypto Stolen:** Amount not disclosed
**Status:** Investigation ongoing
LINKED SOURCES
[url] https://www.thephuketnews.com/russian-mma-fighter-khusein-twin-brother-arrested-for-kidnap-torture-extortion-in-phuket-89533.php
NOTES ON THIS FILE
* matched to sheet row 162: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides
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ARTICLE 1
Source PhuketNews
URL https://www.thephuketnews.com/russian-mma-fighter-khusein-twin-brother-arrested-for-kidnap-torture-extortion-in-phuket-89533.php
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Length 5,883 chars
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Russian MMA fighter Khusein, twin brother arrested for kidnap, torture, extortion in Phuket
PHUKET: Well-known MMA fighter Khusein Askhabov and his twin brother Khasan have been arrested in connection with three Kazakh nationals forcing their way into an Italian man’s villa at a resort in Cherng Talay and holding him bound and gagged while beating him for information in an hours-long ordeal that ended with the three men flying out of Phuket to Dubai after robbing the Italian man of more than B12 million in personal belongings.
By The Phuket News
Monday 11 September 2023 06:58 PM
The Italian man still bound and gagged when resort staff found him. Photo: Supplied
The arrests were confirmed by a report of the incident by Cherng Talay Police Superintendent Pol Col Chalermchai Hersawat last Tuesday (Sept 5).The report was recorded on a form marked “Form for reporting serious and shocking incidents and reasons that must be reported urgently” that was addressed to deputy national police chief Pol Gen Torsak Sukwimol, and all the senior ranking officers down the chain of command to Region 8 Police, Phuket Provincial Police and even the Phuket Governor and Thalang District Chief.Of note, so far police ‒ or any other officials ‒ in Phuket have yet to publicly recognise the incident, despite a press conference last Friday (Sept 8) that was held specifically to assure the public that law-enforcement in Phuket was dealing with any aspects of criminal activity by Russians in Phuket The press conference was held in response to a report by Al Jazeera, reporting already long well known problems of Russians working illegally, and the arrival of violent crime by Russian nationals on the island, including the threat of gangland violence rearing its head on the streets, such as when a Kazakh national opened fire four times in broad daylight on 44-year-old Russian businessman Dmitry Aleynikov outside a cafe in Boat Avenue on June 7.The report issued by Cherng Talay Police Chief Pol Col Chalermchai last Tuesday confirmed the arrests of 28-year-old Russian twin brothers Khasan Askhabov and Khusein Askhabpov (the report used the different spelling of the brothers’ family name, but clearly marked the brothers as “twins”).Born in Grozny, Chechnya, Khusein Askhabov is well known as MMA fighter ‘Nohcho’. Although ESPN still lists Khusein as fighting out of Tiger Muay Thai in Chalong, he is now understood to be training at a Muay Thai camp in Cherng Talay.
Khusein and his brother Khasan were arrested on Tuesday (Sept 5), Col Chalermchai confirmed. The report did not mark where the twins were arrested, but noted they were taken into custody under arrest warrants No. 479/2566 and No 480/2566, issued by Phuket Provincial Court on Monday (Sept 4).
The report confirmed the arrests were made with the intent of prosecuting the brothers with “the act of robbery done with cruelty to the extent that others receive it and endangering the body or mind through torture", charges which fall under the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act B.E. 2565 (2022), which covers three significant offences including torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment as well as enforced disappearance. The report marked that the arrests followed an investigation launched after a formal complaint of the incident was received on Monday (Sept 4). The report did not mark details of the ordeal, but did confirm the theft of:
One Rolex ‘Daytona’ watch valued at about B2,476,500
One Patek Philippe ‘Nautilus’ watch valued at about B3,805,250
One GRAFF watch valued at about B1,600,200
One Macbook, a new iPhone 13 and a new iPhone 14, and a pair of sunglasses
Also listed as stolen were the Italian man’s passport, his ADIB bank (Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank) debit card as well as passwords for accessing his telephones, safe and computers.
The Phuket News was told that the three men also stole 40,000 euros in cash (about B1,523mn) from the safe plus 16,000 euros (about B609,578) was stolen in Dubai by use of the stolen debit card, which was known only after the incident had been reported to police.
A source close to the Italian man told The Phuket News that the ordeal began when three men entered the Italian man’s villa at the well-known resort through a side door and grabbed him while he was still asleep in the bedroom at about 11pm last Sunday night (Sept 3).
The three, which the Italian man said he had never seen before, dragged him out of the bedroom then bound, gagged and blindfolded him.
His assailants then received a phone call from a person orchestrating the attack, through which the three men asked for information, including the location of a drive containing a ledger of cryptocurrency, which the Italian men denied he had.
The first beating began, lasting some 30 minutes, which ended with another phone call to the three attackers, relaying further instructions.
The ordeal continued through the night, with the Italian man suffering multiple contusions to his face and body from the beatings.
The three men eventually fled the villa, leaving the Italian man bound and gagged.
CCTV security footage from the resort showed the Italian man finally making his escape, rolling down a pathway ‒ still bound and gagged but no long blindfolded ‒ towards the resort’s motorbike parking area at 4:48pm the next day (Monday, Sept 4).
The three attackers were later identified and confirmed as clearing Immigration at Phuket International Airport at 6:58am last Monday (Sept 4). The three men boarded Flight EK397 from Phuket to Dubai, and are now believed to have returned to Kazakhstan
The Italian man said he had first met the Askhabov brothers at a beach cafe in Cherng Talay about a year ago. They had become acquaintances over the past year. However, he had never seen the three Kazakh attackers before the ordeal.
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Source thephuketnews.com
URL https://www.thephuketnews.com/russian-mma-fighter-khusein-twin-brother-arrested-for-kidnap-torture-extortion-in-phuket-89533.php
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Length 9,391 chars
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Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied
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Russian MMA fighter Khusein, twin brother arrested for kidnap, torture, extortion in Phuket
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PHUKET: Well-known MMA fighter Khusein Askhabov and his twin brother Khasan have been arrested in connection with three Kazakh nationals forcing their way into an Italian man’s villa at a resort in Cherng Talay and holding him bound and gagged while beating him for information in an hours-long ordeal that ended with the three men flying out of Phuket to Dubai after robbing the Italian man of more than B12 million in personal belongings.
The Italian man still bound and gagged when resort staff found him. Photo: Supplied
The man suffered multiple contusions to his face, torso and legs. Photo: Supplied
Hotel CCTV security cameras recorded the man making his way to freedom after escaping his villa still bound and gagged. Image: Screenshot
The report signed by Cherng Talay Police Chief Pol Col Chalermchai Hersawat last Tuesday confirming the arrests of 28-year-old Russian twin brothers Khusein and Khasan Askhabov. Photo: Supplied
The arrests were confirmed by a report of the incident by Cherng Talay Police Superintendent Pol Col Chalermchai Hersawat last Tuesday (Sept 5).
The report was recorded on a form marked “Form for reporting serious and shocking incidents and reasons that must be reported urgently” that was addressed to deputy national police chief Pol Gen Torsak Sukwimol, and all the senior ranking officers down the chain of command to Region 8 Police, Phuket Provincial Police and even the Phuket Governor and Thalang District Chief.
Of note, so far police ‒ or any other officials ‒ in Phuket have yet to publicly recognise the incident, despite a press conference last Friday (Sept 8) that was held specifically to assure the public that law-enforcement in Phuket was dealing with any aspects of criminal activity by Russians in Phuket.
The press conference was held in response to a report by Al Jazeera, reporting already long well known problems of Russians working illegally, and the arrival of violent crime by Russian nationals on the island, including the threat of gangland violence rearing its head on the streets, such as when a Kazakh national opened fire four times in broad daylight on 44-year-old Russian businessman Dmitry Aleynikov outside a cafe in Boat Avenue on June 7.
The report issued by Cherng Talay Police Chief Pol Col Chalermchai last Tuesday confirmed the arrests of 28-year-old Russian twin brothers Khasan Askhabov and Khusein Askhabpov (the report used the different spelling of the brothers’ family name, but clearly marked the brothers as “twins”).
Born in Grozny, Chechnya, Khusein Askhabov is well known as MMA fighter ‘Nohcho’. Although ESPN still lists Khusein as fighting out of Tiger Muay Thai in Chalong, he is now understood to be training at a Muay Thai camp in Cherng Talay.
Khusein and his brother Khasan were arrested on Tuesday (Sept 5), Col Chalermchai confirmed. The report did not mark where the twins were arrested, but noted they were taken into custody under arrest warrants No. 479/2566 and No 480/2566, issued by Phuket Provincial Court on Monday (Sept 4).
The report confirmed the arrests were made with the intent of prosecuting the brothers with “the act of robbery done with cruelty to the extent that others receive it and endangering the body or mind through torture", charges which fall under the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act B.E. 2565 (2022), which covers three significant offences including torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment as well as enforced disappearance.
The report marked that the arrests followed an investigation launched after a formal complaint of the incident was received on Monday (Sept 4). The report did not mark details of the ordeal, but did confirm the theft of:
One Rolex ‘Daytona’ watch valued at about B2,476,500
One Patek Philippe ‘Nautilus’ watch valued at about B3,805,250
One GRAFF watch valued at about B1,600,200
One Macbook, a new iPhone 13 and a new iPhone 14, and a pair of sunglasses
Also listed as stolen were the Italian man’s passport, his ADIB bank (Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank) debit card as well as passwords for accessing his telephones, safe and computers.
The Phuket News was told that the three men also stole 40,000 euros in cash (about B1,523mn) from the safe plus 16,000 euros (about B609,578) was stolen in Dubai by use of the stolen debit card, which was known only after the incident had been reported to police.
A source close to the Italian man told The Phuket News that the ordeal began when three men entered the Italian man’s villa at the well-known resort through a side door and grabbed him while he was still asleep in the bedroom at about 11pm last Sunday night (Sept 3).
The three, which the Italian man said he had never seen before, dragged him out of the bedroom then bound, gagged and blindfolded him.
His assailants then received a phone call from a person orchestrating the attack, through which the three men asked for information, including the location of a drive containing a ledger of cryptocurrency, which the Italian men denied he had.
The first beating began, lasting some 30 minutes, which ended with another phone call to the three attackers, relaying further instructions.
The ordeal continued through the night, with the Italian man suffering multiple contusions to his face and body from the beatings.
The three men eventually fled the villa, leaving the Italian man bound and gagged.
CCTV security footage from the resort showed the Italian man finally making his escape, rolling down a pathway ‒ still bound and gagged but no long blindfolded ‒ towards the resort’s motorbike parking area at 4:48pm the next day (Monday, Sept 4).
The three attackers were later identified and confirmed as clearing Immigration at Phuket International Airport at 6:58am last Monday (Sept 4). The three men boarded Flight EK397 from Phuket to Dubai, and are now believed to have returned to Kazakhstan
The Italian man said he had first met the Askhabov brothers at a beach cafe in Cherng Talay about a year ago. They had become acquaintances over the past year. However, he had never seen the three Kazakh attackers before the ordeal.
serfer, reading the article it sounds like the Italian told Police that the Kazakh's were most likely getting the phone calls from the Russian's. The hoards of Russian's is like a plague on Phuket. They are horrible people. Loud, rude, drive like idiots. Park their cars wherever they like. Leave their kids running wild in restaurants. They think they own the place, totally inconsiderat...
solar_serfer |
12 September 2023 - 17:56:34
Kazakhs and especially the Chechens are definitely not "Russians'.
Taswegian |
12 September 2023 - 11:38:13
Well well! Big loss of face to the immigration bureau. What was that statement they made just days ago. "No Russian mafia. Only 3 cases of crimes involving Russians." Does this quality as case no. 4? Muay Thai camps are breeding pens for low IQ foreign meatheads that are an embarrassment to any country, not just Russia. Well known by whom? Sad gits that get off watching people get beaten...
Capricornball |
12 September 2023 - 00:48:00
Of course the police say nothing, they are corrupt to the core and don't give one s#!^ what anyone says or thinks. I wouldn't be surprised if the police are now in possession of the Italian guy's assets that were taken before the Kazaks were escorted to the airport. This place is circling the bowl, and is quickly becoming dangerous and intolerable. Police are a huge part of the problem...
oh i though there were absolutely no russian gangsters around here.... immigration officer are totally sure as always..wtf... and police are all clean and transparent as we know it too...yeah right
Hermann1 |
11 September 2023 - 21:44:24
Absolute scumbags. Sadly so many of those martial arts schools are popping up on Phuket. And sadly more than just a few of those sports men are quite dodgy. Hope they will get those Kazaks too.
Well well we’ll be interesting to read what this fantastic good RTP have to say.
Fascinated |
11 September 2023 - 19:01:15
It can't be true, we had an article the other day saying how cute and cuddly the Russians are and not involved in crime here. You don't mean to tell me they were wrong do you?
Kuwaiti tourist caught after spraying Patong pharmacist
Phuket-Phang Nga route showcases new MICE adventure campaign
Phuket tourism leaders call for shift from volume to value
Mobile blood drives roll out for September
Girl, 8, killed in motorbike collision with truck
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Shots Fired Near Chalong Reservoir, Fugitive Busted, Reckless Jet Ski Hazard || Sep 4
Korean fraud suspect arrested after hiding in Phuket
Thai-Nepali group backs Phuket cultural tourism
Man, 51, dies in apparent self-inflicted shooting in Chalong
Jet-ski riders spark near-miss with tourist boat off Phuket
US sailors descend on Pattaya after months at sea
Man arrested over discharging firearms near Chalong reservoir
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Man Adrift in Phang Nga Bay Rescued, Suspended Students Fires Gun In School || Sep 3
EDC field in Cherng Talay eyed for Heroines Festival
Freedom Beach closed indefinitely as rough seas persist
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