This is a revelation that should provide grist for the mill of Russian conspiracy theorists and supporters of the Wagner Group and its founder.
The family of the leader of the paramilitary group Wagner hastened to divide their empire a few days before his death, assures the Russian media Mozhem Obyasnit, a Telegram information service managed by Russian dissidents.
According to the investigation, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s family and associates began dividing the billionaire’s assets a few days before his death, which deepened the mystery surrounding the plane crash that took his life.
Prigozhin was aboard his private jet when it crashed between Moscow and St. Petersburg on August 23, killing everyone on board.
Putin’s revenge
Some experts believe that this accident is not an accident and that in reality this crash is just Vladimir Putin’s revenge for the failed uprising that Prigozhin started last June.
According to Mozhem Obyasnit, structural changes were made to eight of the warlord’s most profitable companies in the days before Prigozhin’s sudden disappearance.
There were also changes in the company of Prigozhin’s son Pavel, who founded a subsidiary for tax reasons.
Hundreds of companies
Mozhem Obyasnit also discovered that Prigozhin’s mother Violetta had hidden information about her in state files, while his widows were stripped of ownership of two of Prigozhin’s largest companies and then handed over to his business partner Dmitry Koshara.
Although the true extent of Prigozhin’s empire remains a mystery, a search of his home in St. Petersburg uncovered documents suggesting he had stakes in hundreds of companies in at least 15 countries.
Even more than the sharing of his legacy itself, its calendar raises questions and risks fueling another of the craziest conspiracy theories: Evgeni Prigoyine had staged his death, he would still be alive and waiting for the opportune moment to take revenge at the head of the Take Kremlin…