Six assailants approached the home before dawn, tied up a maid in another building and forced her to hand over a remote control that enabled them to enter the home through the garage, Dzhamal Chakvetadze told NTV television.
“They started to beat me, and I resisted. They hit me over the head with, I think, a pistol butt. It was dark,” he said, taking off his cap to show his bruised scalp.
“They took out a pistol and told me my child was at home — reminded me — and they told me to hand everything over. I did.”
Police and Russia tennis coach Shamil Tarpishchev said the masked assailants tied up Chakvetadze and her parents. Tarpishchev said the 20-year-old Chakvetadze, ranked No. 6 in the world, “tried to resist but it was useless,” ITAR-Tass reported.
NTV reported that the robbers took about $106,000 in cash, as well as jewelry and other goods worth about 5 million rubles (USD 200,000).
The ITAR-Tass news agency cited unidentified police officials as saying the total worth of the stolen money and goods was about 5 million rubles.
