PMC Wagner is involved in the murders of Russian journalists, looting, drunkenness and kidnappings in the Central African Republic – “Dossier”

Wagner PMC fighters are involved in the five-year-old murder of three Russian journalists: Orkhan Dzhemal, Kirill Radchenko and Alexander Rastorguev, as well as looting, drunkenness and kidnappings in the Central African Republic (CAR). New evidence of the crimes of the Wagnerites is brought by the Dossier Center in a joint investigation with the publications Le Monde, Capa Presse and Die Welt (journalists gained access to the Wagnerleaks leak from the internal archives of Yevgeny Prigozhin's structures).

On July 30, 2018, Russian journalists were killed in the Central African Republic, who came there to film an investigation film about the activities of the Wagner PMC. As the publications have established, the main witness in the case of the murder of Russian journalists, their driver Bienvenyu Duvokama, disappeared without a trace. According to Dossier sources, he was kidnapped during a trip to Cameroon and taken to the Central African Republic by people who worked in the interests of Prigozhin. Since 2021, Duvokama has been considered missing.

Throughout the journalists' business trip, the driver kept in touch with local gendarme Emmanuel Tuagende Kotofio, who followed them. Kotofio constantly communicated with Prigozhin's employees, and Duvokama wanted to share information about the murder of Russians with journalists.

Also, PMC mercenaries are involved in extrajudicial executions of civilians, looting, beatings of priests and shooting at UN employees. For example, in May 2021, PMC employees broke into the house of a butcher named Mamadzen in the city of Kaga-Bandoro and took him along with his acquaintance. Two days later, local residents found their bodies near the road a few kilometers from the city. Local residents claimed that at the time of the assassination, there was a certain mercenary with the call sign “Baga” at the Wagner base. A man with such a call sign was indeed among the fighters – Marat Shamilevich Bagauetdinov (personal number M-1587).

Also, one internal report by PMC Wagner described a case of theft at the dacha of the then Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, Firmen Ngrebada:

“They took away all household appliances and part of the furniture (crumbs for chairs) from the Prime Minister's dacha. So they took the TV, the music center was sent to Sands <as Prigozhin's employees call Syria – ed. "Dossier"> , a treadmill – to Lipetsk < as Prigozhin's employees call Libya – ed. "Dossier" >. The TV set was returned after the prime minister turned to the design bureau.”

The material also tells about the drunkenness of the Wagnerites and how they regularly lose weapons in the Central African Republic. Separately, the Dossier Center publishes a list of mercenaries in charge of bases, checkpoints and temporary deployment points in the CAR as of September 2021:

1. Vladislav Yurievich Yurtaykin, M-8126, "Yurtai"
2. Vladimir Nikolaevich Kovalev, M-5019, "Dober"
3. Petr Vasilyevich Chuvashov, M-1011, "Fred"
4. Igor Nikolaevich Vashurin, M-4100, Tambov
5. Mikhail Vladimirovich Dzhigir, M-3070, "Scroll"
6. Nikolai Alexandrovich Khryapin, M-0262, "Dusk"
7. Stanislav Vladimirovich Potiy, M-4221, "Rapid"
8. Andrey Alexandrovich Nagainikov, M-1572, "Montana"
9. Maxim Vasilyevich Lobanov, M-3926, Exit
10. Alexander Anatolyevich Filippov, M-7032, "Proletary"
11. Denis Viktorovich Golovko, M-4579, Scotch
12. Roman Alexandrovich Romanyukov, M-2172, Romario
13. Valit Krymovich Kinzhaliyev, M-2228, Baiterek
14. Andrey Anatolyevich Chirva, M-4319, "Polygraph"
15. Alexey Sergeevich Isakov, M-6218, "Atheist"
16. Yuri Viktorovich Volkov, M-0462, Khalif
17. Oleg Alexandrovich Kongin, M-0455, "Kong"
18. Andrey Sergeevich Kolesnikov, M-0671, "Bald"
19. Fedor Vladimirovich Koshel, M-1521, "Fidel"
20. Ivan Yurievich Gusev, M-2548, "Bagor"
21. Artem Vladimirovich Chumarov, M-2830, Kramnits
22. Oleg Alexandrovich Boldyrev, M-3956, Kip
23. Anton Viktorovich Martynyuk, M-5020, "Hammer"
24. Alexander Viktorovich Veretenichev, M-5371, "Ramzan"
25. Evgeny Andreevich Korotkikh, M-1096, "Court"
26. Maxim Valerievich Kozlov, M-2549, Teza
27. Sergei Alexandrovich Vaganov, M-5210, Humvee
28. Dmitry Andreevich Zhmurin, M-3259, Digo
29. Dmitry Nikolaevich Baturin, M-1732, "Trak"
30. Andrey Nikolaevich Vdovichenko, M-5777, "Square"
31. Vasily Nikolaevich Timofeev, M-1735, "Sunrise"
32. Ramil Rafaelevich Gaisin, M-6784, "Ram"
33. Anton Olegovich Elizarov, M-0136, "Lotus"
34. Sergei Vladimirovich Proskurnin, M-5078, Foltz
35. Vladimir Alexandrovich Vaganov, M-2102, "Wagon"
36. Dmitry Valentinovich Moskovkin, M-1249, "Mityai"
37. Igor Igorevich Rastvorov, M-0676, "Beret"
38. Alexey Gennadievich Lamtev, M-4591, Sochi
39. Dmitry Nikolaevich Zakharenkov, M-6086, Vyborg
40. Anatoly Alexandrovich Maslenskov, M-0390, "Mongol"
41. Alexander Sergeevich Maltsev, M-1068, "Malets"
42. Alexander Alexandrovich Mikishin, M-3071, Nalchik
43. Anton Aleksandrovich Ovchinnikov, M-5446, "Jeff"
44. Pavel Aleksandrovich Zhuravlev, M-1167, "Tatar"

Yevgeny Prigozhin was first included in the US sanctions list in December 2016. In 2021, the FBI put him on the list of the most wanted criminals. In January, the US Treasury Department declared the Wagner PMC a transnational criminal organization involved in "criminal activities, including mass executions, rape, child abduction and physical abuse."