“Prigozhin was sure Putin would forgive him and was not afraid of anything,” wrote the VCsK-OGPU Telegram channel, which has 780,000 subscribers, based on an alleged source close to Prigozhin.
According to what a source told the channels
[Prigozsin] He said he knew a lot. Now we’ll see if anything emerges from his archives.”
In other words, the mercenary leader had incriminating information on the Russian state apparatus. This wouldn’t be surprising, since Since the early 2010s, Prigozhin has been involved in a number of dirty affairs linked to the Russian government, from rigging US elections to African raw material deals to planning and executing the invasion of Ukraine.
The main question is whether you plan to release this information if you are already dead.
The channel’s informant also reflected that Prigozhin traveled with Dmitry Utkin and Valery Chekalov, two influential leaders of the Wagner Group, simply because they were always moving around together. According to the informant, Utkin was Wagner’s operations manager, and Chekalov was doing the background work.
VCsK-OGPU is an important but well-connected Russian Telegram channel. Inside information, often unpleasant, about the operation of the Russian armed forces is regularly published.
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