10 billion rubles seized during searches were returned to Yevgeny Prigozhin

The founder of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin was returned money and gold seized during searches in the case of armed rebellion. This is reported by “Fontanka” with reference to unnamed sources.

As the publication notes, Prigozhin was not initially planned to return the seized 10 billion rubles, hundreds of thousands of dollars and 5 gold bars. However, by Sunday evening, all his money and valuables were returned to him. According to “Fontanka”, Prigozhin himself was not present at the broadcast, instead of the businessman came his driver with power of attorney. According to preliminary data, on the weekend Prigozhin was in Moscow.

Earlier, “Fonatnka” wrote that during searches in the backyard of the “Trezyna” hotel in St. Petersburg, which is considered to be the office of Yevgeny Prigozhin, a “Gazelle” with 4 billion rubles was found, and a little later a minivan was found in the underground parking lot of the River Palace hotel another 6 billion. Gold and currency were seized from the office of the founder of PMC “Wagner”. Prigozhin himself stated that this was money for the salaries of the PMC “Wagner” fighters and payments to the relatives of the dead.

On June 27, the FSB announced the termination of the criminal case about sedition, initiated after the PMC “Wagner” raid on Moscow. The Kremlin promised to close the case as part of the agreements with Yevgeny Prigozhin. The FSB said that the special service “established that the participants in the rebellion stopped actions directly aimed at committing a crime.”

• On June 23, Yevgeny Prigozhin accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of launching a missile attack on the rear positions of the Wagnerites and announced a “justice march” to Moscow to bring Minister Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov to justice. Within a day, columns of PMC “Wagner” actually managed to take control of Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh.
• By the evening of June 24, it became known about the negotiations between Prigozhin and Alexander Lukashenko. As a result of these consultations, the advance of the “Wagner” columns towards Moscow was stopped. Prigozhin declared that his soldiers “are going in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan.”
• Prigozhin, by agreement with the Kremlin and the authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, left for Minsk. PMC mercenaries were offered to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense. The group’s equipment will be transferred to the Russian army, the ministry said on June 27.