He has accused the president of ordering the murder of a Georgian media magnate, Badri Patarkatsishvili, and has cast doubt on the death in 2005 of the then prime minister, Zurab Zhvania, officially in an accident.
After the guilty verdict, and a sentence of four months in prison, the sharia court in Ras al-Khaimah (one of the emirates) ruled that anyone found guilty of employing a magician to cast a spell on someone else would be sentenced to death.