Oppositionist Alexei Navalny said that the owner of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, twice came to the colony where he is located and recruited prisoners for the war. A message about this was published on Navalny's social networks.
Talking about this, Navalny refers to the words of an eyewitness, he himself was not present at the meeting with Prigogine. “I flew in by helicopter, all the prisoners were gathered at the stadium together with the authorities. Prigogine is short and bald. He said: “I myself rewound 10 years, I call you to become my stormtroopers. In six months I will issue a pardon to everyone, you have 5 minutes to think, ”Navalny quotes him as saying.
According to Navalny, after the first recruitment, about 80-90 prisoners expressed a desire to go to war.
The fact that Prigozhin personally recruits prisoners in the colonies, The Insider wrote at the end of August. According to the prisoners, Prigozhin does not hide the fact that Vladimir Putin personally authorized the recruitment of criminals for the war, says that he “represents an organized criminal group that helps the Russian army,” and promises prisoners from 100,000 to 230,000 rubles a month, giving preference to those convicted of murder. On September 14, the Telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU published a video in which Prigozhin stands in front of a line of prisoners of IK-6 and tells them about the conditions of service.