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Feature: Badr Hari’s longstanding friendship with Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov

In December 2014, Badr Hari posted a half-naked photo of himself seated in a solid gold bath tub armed with a gold platted AK47 machine gun. At the time, the Moroccan super heavyweight was in Grozny, capital of the Chechen Republic, where he was reportedly giving kickboxing lessons to Ramzan Kadyrov himself. Below the bizarre picture lay a telling caption:

“Everything in gold, I take all what life brings to me! Only in Mother Russia! Much love to the one true president.”

The picture raised uncomfortable questions for Hari, who resided in Morocco at the time.