2023-06-24 15:11:47
The head of the Russian Wagner Group, the rebel, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Saturday that the cash boxes found by the Federal Security Service in trucks near his office, in St. Petersburg, are intended to cover salaries and other expenses for Wagner fighters.
According to Russian media reports, the cardboard boxes contain four billion rubles (regarding $47 million).
was the site ofFontankaThe Russian stated that a pickup truck full of boxes containing cash was found near Prigozhin’s office, in the courtyard of the Trezzini Hotel in St. Petersburg.
According to the same source, the truck, which was parked in a suspicious manner, was checked for explosives, but when it was opened, boxes full of cash were found.
And Russian media published pictures of a vehicle with regarding 8 boxes on the ground next to it.
Some of the boxes are open, “and you can see that they are full of bundles of Russian banknotes, most of them red,” according to Fontaka.
Next to these boxes, Russian security personnel in civilian clothes can be seen, in addition to a number of special forces officers carrying machine guns.
And in his response to what was reported by the Russian media, on Saturday, Prigozhin said in a statement via Telegram: “Not only one truck but two pick-up trucks were found containing money intended for wages, compensation for fighters killed in action, and other things.”
Prigozhin is leading what Moscow describes as a “rebellion” once morest the army, following he and his group were a tool in the hands of the Kremlin to invade Ukraine.
The man announced his quest to enter Russia, on Friday, following accusing it of killing a large number of his fighters.
During the night, Prigozhin stated that he “entered Rostov”, a city in southern Russia not far from Ukraine, and that his elements did not open fire towards the unit’s recruits deployed to block his path, and that his forces shot down a Russian military helicopter, explaining, “Now a helicopter opened fire on a civilian convoy, It was shot down by Wagner units.”
The Russian authorities have beefed up security measures in Moscow, imposing an “anti-terror operation regime” as a direct result of Prigozhin’s threats, who said in an audio message on Telegram, “We will go to the end and destroy everything that gets in our way.”
Pictures on social networks and news websites showed military vehicles traveling in the city near the Ministry of Defense and others parked in front of the House of Representatives, tens of meters away from the Kremlin.
For its part, the Russian intelligence service called on the Wagner fighters to arrest their leader. Russian General Sergei Surovikin urged Wagner’s fighters to put an end to their rebellion.
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