In an interview with Sport24 reporter Yaroslav Stepanov, 35-year-old Russian naked fighter Alexander Severin, who performed at the Best Dog Fighting Championship and nicknamed Sever, talked about how he was imprisoned despite an iron-clad excuse. (We are talking about the years 2006 – 2013. – Note Sport24).

– In 2006 I went to places not far away. without their own faults. Due to bad conditions. Or some rock. Or maybe, at the whim of some unscrupulous… Well, I’ll put it in simple words – the scumbag that influenced my destiny. Bastards who use financial opportunities, connections for their rotten machinations, and put me in jail, accusing me and a few others of a crime I didn’t commit.

I always start to boil inside me when I tell this story. It is always difficult to share this, because there is still injustice, disappointment, and sediment that does not allow you to calmly communicate and tell. I served 162, chapter 2: “The Robbery”. I will say it briefly: There was an attack on a businessman. And through some scheme, the guys fabricated the case, so to speak, to jeopardize another connection. To reach other people through us. I don’t want to go into details now, I don’t want to name names. Those who are interested can contact me, I will talk about this in more detail.

I know one thing: I was not punished for my crime. Without doing that, it ended up there. He spent seven years. I gave my youth Lost health – both physically and psychologically. But after I got out of this swamp, I found the strength to return to normal life. I try to forgive these people who influenced my destiny. I put them aside in my head.

– We talked a little before the shooting, you told the essence of the event. I can’t describe it in two words. But the truth is, when the proceedings on this case began, as I understand it, you had a solid alibi at the time of the attack. Why was it not taken into account?

– For one reason: money decided the matter there. The guys were rich, airy – they bought everyone and everything. I had to pay an enormous amount of money to get out of this situation. I was 19-20 years old at the time and neither I nor my family had such funds. And for not taking into account the excuse I have. And at that moment, during the attack on the person I was really imprisoned, we were playing with the guys at the machines. Many saw us, spoke in court, but nothing helped. No call logs, no witness statements. Money solves such problems. We had to be imprisoned, and the trump was enormous.

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