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Glamorous chess queen accused of poisoning rival’s board with MERCURY is cleared after case is dropped

Her rival has been left furious

A CHESS queen caught on CCTV apparently poisoning a rival's board with mercury will not be charged after prosecutors dropped the case.

Chilling footage showed Russian chess pro Amina Abakarova, 40, spreading what was believed to be the toxic chemical where her rival was due to sit for a tournament match.

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Chess pro Amina Abakarova will not be charged after allegedly poisoning a rival's board with mercuryCredit: East2West
The chess pro will not be charged because the victim's injuries were not serious enoughCredit: Amina Abakarova, NF/newsX
Charges have been dropped after CCTV footage showed Abakarova approaching Umayganat Osmanova's boardCredit: Newsflash
Osmanova collapsed during a matchCredit: East2West

Later her glamorous foe Umayganat Osmanova, 30, collapsed as she was playing in the Dagestan Chess Championship in southern Russia last August.

In the original security footage, Abakarova was seen walking into the tournament room and looking around furtively before she approached her rival's board.

Then she appeared to brush a dark grey powder, which was understood to be mercury, on to the board, and smeared it around with a chess piece.

Abakarova was arrested after doctors discovered Umayganat had been poisoned and a review of the tournament venue's security footage discovered Abakarova's tampering.

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But now it has emerged that Abakarova has never been punished, formally charged or even been to court after investigators determined the victim's injuries were not serious enough.

Because she did not suffer any lasting consequences to her health after the poisoning, Abakarova has been told that the case has been shelved, Russian media reported..

Furious Umayganat said: "I was sent for a medical examination, and since there were no consequences or physical injuries, [the case] was not initiated.

"Obviously, there wouldn't be physical injuries in this case; the case was about the fact I inhaled a toxic substance."

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She claimed: "Everywhere I went they turned me away. We sent submissions to the prosecutor’s office and then to the Investigative Committee but they keep sending us around in circles.

"They didn’t even call me to a court hearing – she [Abakarova] was just let free."

Now Umayganat is determined to have a rematch with her rival in a private prosecution or a civil damages case.

She added: "The person who did this to me, was not even issued an administrative fine."

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