Founder of Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin in four years preceding the invasion of Ukraine, received $ 250 million profit from natural resources, reports Financial Times with reference to corporate documents.
According to the investigation conducted by the publication, Prigozhin, against which Western countries imposed sanctions, earns on the extraction of oil, gas, diamonds and gold in Africa and the Middle East. FT journalists studied the bank accounts of companies related to PMCs both those that are under sanctions and those that are not. At the same time, investigators did not concern Prigozhin’s business in Russia.
In January, the US Treasury announced the PMC of Wagner with a transnational criminal organization involved in “criminal actions, including mass executions, rape, kidnapping and physical bullying”.