Late Russian businessman's fate was entwined with the Kremlin for decades — as a trusted government contractor and the head of a private army accused of atrocities in Syria and Africa.
Prigozhin was convicted of robbery and assault in 1981, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. When he got out, he opened a restaurant business in St. Petersburg in the 1990s. and later used his connections to establish the Wagner mercenary group.
Prigozhin cut a deal with Putin and the leader of Belarus for a safe haven for himself and the men involved in the rebellion. He was reported to pop up periodically in Russia and appeared in a recruitment video earlier this week.Robbery convict to Putin's chef He later expanded into other areas, including media and an infamous internet “troll factory” that led to his indictment in the U.S. for meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
But it wasn’t until September 2022 that Prigozhin acknowledged founding, leading and financing Wagner. By then, his mercenaries — including men he’d recruited in Russian prisons — were fighting and dying by scores in Ukraine, especially in the shattered town of Bakhmut.
Prigozhin toured Russian prisons to recruit fighters, promising pardons if t hey survived a half-year tour of front line duty with Wagner. After the capture of Soldear, Prigozhin increasingly raised his public profile, for months boasting almost daily about Wagner’s purported victories, sardonically mocking his enemies and complaining in profanity-laced diatribes about the military brass.
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