A flow of money from the Russian state to the Wagner Group, the Prigozhin-led paramilitaries and protagonists of Russia’s recent failed coup attempt. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group is said to have received over 17.5 billion euros from the Russian state: 860 billion rubles (around 8.86 billion euros) for government contracts and 845 billion rubles (around 8.71 billion euros) through Concord Holding for services rendered Services. According to reports from the Russian news agency “RIA Novosti”, she is supported by the TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev at the TV channel “Rossiya”.
“The private military enterprise Wagner, founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, received a little more than 858 billion rubles under contracts with the state. I’m less than a trillion. Under other contracts, Prigozhin’s Concord Holding provided services worth 845 billion rubles. It doesn’t mean they earned that much, but it still shows the size of the business and the size of the ambition,” Kiselev said.