PFL (Professional Fighters League) lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov could have faced a harsher penalty over his incident with Georgian MMA fighter Merab Dvalishvili in Abu Dhabi.
Globalinfo.az reports that criminal defence lawyer Maxim Silvestri said this in an interview with Gazeta.Ru.
According to the lawyer, the legislation of the United Arab Emirates takes a fairly strict approach to cases of violence in public places.
Silvestri noted that if the incident had been assessed as a more serious bodily injury, the accused could have faced up to seven years in prison.
Comparing with international legislation, the lawyer said that if a similar incident had occurred in Russia, the act could have been classified as battery or minor bodily injury, depending on the legal assessment. In that case, the applicable penalty would be up to two years in prison. However, according to Silvestri, the likelihood of an actual prison term being imposed in Russian legal practice would be lower.
He also did not rule out that the parties’ involvement in a mutual conflict could, in Russia, provide grounds for terminating a criminal case.
Note that the incident occurred on November 11 at one of the hotels in Abu Dhabi. During an interview, Dvalishvili clashed with Usman Nurmagomedov and the people around him.
Later, on November 13, an Abu Dhabi court sentenced 10 people to six months in prison over the incident, imposing a fine of 300,000 dirhams on each and deportation from the country. Dvalishvili and his teammate Saba Lazshvili were each fined 50,000 dirhams and released.
Tahir Turan
Globalinfo.az
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