During searches in the office and house of the head of PMC “Wagner” Prigozhin, they found weapons, passports and wigs
Law enforcement agencies found wigs, weapons, large sums of money and passports in the house and office of the leader of the private military company (PMC) Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin. Writes about it RIA News with reference to the air of the TV channel “Russia 1”.
Judging by the footage, during the search, the police found fake passports, gold bars, wigs and an arsenal of weapons. It also became known that Prigozhin’s house was equipped with its own helipad, swimming pool, sauna and gym.
In addition, a Citroen minibus with six billion rubles in cash was found near the River Palace Hotel.
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Returned valuables
On Wednesday, July 5, a source said that Prigozhin was returned the Glock award pistol received from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, as well as other weapons found during searches in St. Petersburg. The head of the PMC personally arrived to pick up the confiscated items from the FSB department in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Two Saiga carbines, a rifled Austrian Steyr Mannlicher carbine, an Arka semi-automatic rifle, and several more rifles and pistols were returned to him. After receiving the weapons, Prigozhin left.
Shoigu himself, commenting on Prigozhin’s rebellion, clarified that the plans failed due to the fact that “the personnel of the armed forces showed loyalty to the oath and military duty.” According to him, the events did not affect the course of the special military operation (SVO) in any way.
The provocation did not affect the actions of the groupings of troops
Transferred money
In addition, on July 4, Prigozhin received back 10 billion rubles, which were found on him during searches. The head of Wagner was not present at the transfer procedure. The driver took the money with a power of attorney. A cache with packages and boxes of money was found in the parking lot of Prigozhin’s hotel.
10
billion rubles
were found at Prigozhin’s during searches
On June 24, “PMC Wagner Center” was cordoned off by security forces, search activities were held there.
Prigozhin’s rebellion
On the evening of June 23, Prigozhin accused the Russian Defense Ministry of strikes against his units. The company’s fighters occupied the building of the headquarters of the Southern Military District (SMD) in the center of Rostov-on-Don, and also moved towards Moscow. After that, a criminal case was opened against the head of the group under the article on organizing a rebellion.
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On June 24, Prigozhin, after negotiations with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, announced that his fighters were turning around and heading to field camps.
Now is the moment when blood can be shed. Therefore, realizing all the responsibility for the fact that Russian blood can be shed on one of the sides, we deploy our columns and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan.
The press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, said in the evening of the same day that Prigozhin would leave for Belarus, and the criminal case against him would be dropped. He added that Wagner fighters would not be prosecuted.
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