According to journalists, Yevgeny Prigozhin was in Moscow last weekend. He sent a driver with a “power of attorney” for money.
The head of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhina received from the security forces of the Russian Federation 10 billion rubles, hundreds of thousands of dollars and 5 gold bars. All funds previously received from St. It was seized during searches in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the Russian media “Fontanka”.
The publication writes that initially no one would return the money, but then “force majeure” intervened.
Prigozhin personally spent days in St. It is reported that he did not go to Petersburg. But as expected, he was in Moscow last weekend, where he attended some “meetings”.
According to journalists, Prigozhin, by official power of attorney, sent a driver to St. sent to St. Petersburg. It is not known how the money transfer procedure took place, but “the money is unlikely to be counted.”
The material says that on the day of the search Prigozhin did not deny his attitude to money. He stated that this amount was prepared for the payment of salaries to the mercenaries of the Wagner PMC and the distribution of the payments made to the relatives of the deceased in Ukraine.
Recall that on July 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that he personally financed PMC Wagner. According to Russian propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov, deals with the Kremlin for the catering company holding Concorde and PMC Wagner totaled nearly $20 billion.
Then the Russian media announced new details of the Kremlin funding of the “Wagnerists”. According to a person close to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian state has been holding the Wagnerites for the past nine years, starting in 2014.
After that, it became known that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation terminated the contract with Prigozhin’s company. The catering holding “Concord” was serving food for Russian soldiers, including in the occupied Ukrainian territory. Currently, thousands of workers have been fired from the company.
Source: Focus
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