2023-06-27 11:06:04
According to the Moscow media, criminal proceedings once morest him have not yet been dropped following the armed uprising of the mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner army.
Investigators from the domestic secret service FSB are continuing to investigate the case, the newspaper Kommersant reported on Monday, citing the investigators. “Investigations are ongoing,” the Russian news agency Interfax reported, citing its own unspecified source. The Kremlin announced on Saturday evening that criminal proceedings once morest Prigozhin and the Wagner insurgents would be dropped.
Meanwhile, there was still no trace of the 62-year-old. According to the Kremlin, he should find refuge in neighboring Belarus. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin said in a speech on Saturday that the masterminds of the uprising would face their “inevitable punishment”. The fact that the Kremlin declared a little later that the rebels would get away scot-free following the end of the revolt and the withdrawal from Russia caused astonishment in the huge empire. Commentators interpreted Putin’s concession as weakness on the part of the Kremlin chief.
The Russian authorities, meanwhile, took action once morest the Wagner organization in Russia. According to the local media, there were raids on the offices in St. Petersburg, Prigozhin’s headquarters. archyde news posters used by the private army to recruit volunteers for military service in Ukraine were also removed in the country. Thousands of mercenaries serve in the Wagner troupe. The social network VK – the Russian counterpart of Facebook – blocked Wagner’s page on the instructions of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
In his Telegram channel, which has more than 1.3 million subscribers, Prigozhin’s last message came from Saturday, when he announced the end of the brief uprising following negotiations with Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko and Prigozhin, who, according to the Kremlin, have known each other for regarding 20 years, had independently stated that the withdrawal of the Wagner troops was intended to prevent “bloodshed” in Russia. After that, the situation suddenly calmed down. (sda/dpa)
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