The enterprises of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Concord catering holding, which supplied food to the Russian army, lost their contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, and their employees were fired without severance pay, the Caution News Telegram channel reports .
According to his sources, as early as June 23, employees of various legal entities included in the holding were instructed to destroy the documentation. Until July 15, the entire document flow had to be transferred to the new owners. However, on July 1, it turned out that JSC Voentorg of the Ministry of Defense terminated the contract with Concorde, and all employees were to be fired.
We are talking about several thousand workers, including cooks, storekeepers, canteen managers and accountants. Their task was to provide food for the military, supply food to hospitals and to the front. It is reported that people are fired without severance pay, given only a salary and forced to sign a letter of resignation of their own free will. Information about this is brought up orally, since "it is forbidden to store it anywhere except for the base, which was turned off several times."
On June 27, Vladimir Putin said that the Concorde company, which owns the PMC Wagner, earned 80 billion rubles on government contracts in a year. Then he expressed the hope that "no one stole anything or stole less, but we will deal with it all."
On June 30 , it was reported about the closure of Prigozhin's media holding "Patriot". It was created on the basis of a “troll factory” that has been operating since 2013, whose employees wrote comments on social networks in support of the government for money. It included RIA FAN, Narodnye Novosti, Nevskiye Novosti, Ekonomika Segodnya and many other publications. The employees of the media holding, most of whom were not formally registered, were fired.
After the military riot , arranged by Prigozhin and Wagner PMC fighters, his fate, like the future of the organization, was in question. Vladimir Putin publicly called Prigozhin a traitor and a traitor. PMC mercenaries were again offered to conclude a contract with the Ministry of Defense. Alexander Lukashenko said that Prigozhin himself and some of his mercenaries left for Belarus. There were reports that camps for the Wagnerites were already being built there. And the State Duma announced that Prigozhin's people would no longer take part in the war in Ukraine.