Wagner chief ‘had nothing to lose’ with riot ‘after most cancers remedy’
Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has undergone remedy for abdomen most cancers and the sickness might have performed a task in his resolution to launch a mutiny in opposition to the Kremlin, a report has claimed.
Mr Prigozhin was handled for years, and his most cancers is now in remission, in line with his former staff quoted by Russian investigative web site Proekt.
And the rebellion in opposition to the Russian navy management the warlord led between June 23 and 24 might have been prompted by the very fact he has little to lose following his sickness.
A former Wagner worker advised the Russian news outlet, as reported by The Times: “This is a man with a cut-out stomach and intestines!”
While no public documentation is out there to show Mr Prigozhin was sick with most cancers, the Wagner chief is thought to have been admitted for unspecified remedy at a clinic in St Petersburg linked to Vladimir Putin – Sogaz.
This facility is owned by AO Sogaz, a Russian insurance coverage firm whose deputy chief government is a businessman known as Mikhail Putin, regarded as the Russian President’s second cousin.
News of the admission to Sogaz emerged following a police raid at Mr Prigozhin’s house in St Petersburg within the wake of the Wagner mutiny.
At the residence, officers discovered quite a few faux passports – together with one bearing the title “Dmitry Geiler”.
This identical title corresponded with one of many “super VIP” sufferers at Sogaz, in line with paperwork obtained by Radio Liberty in 2021.
During the raid, officers seized computer systems and different gear, and located an array of things together with gold bars, wigs and assault weapons.
Further clues Mr Prigozhin might have suffered a critical illness was the discovering of medical gear at his house, together with ventilators.
The whereabouts of Mr Prigozhin are unclear, because it’s his future after he launched a riot in opposition to the Ministry of Defence, which over the previous yr he had brazenly criticised and accused of being chargeable for the unfavorable course of the conflict in Ukraine.
Five days after the rebellion, whereas he was believed to have gone into exile in Belarus as a part of the deal struck by Alexander Lukashenko, Mr Prigozhin held a three-hour assembly with Putin, the Kremlin mentioned.
Dozens extra individuals, together with Wagner’s prime commanders, had been additionally in attendance, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov added.
He mentioned earlier this week: “[They] presented their version of what happened [during the mutiny] and they emphasised that they are staunch supporters and soldiers of the head of state and the supreme commander. They also said that they are ready to continue to fight for the Motherland.
“Putin listened to the reasons of the commanders and provided them additional choices for employment.”