In the courtyard of the Trezzini Hotel near Prigozhin’s office, a Gazelle stuffed with boxes of money was found

In St. Petersburg, near the Trezzini Hotel, which is believed to be the office of Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Gazelle was found stuffed with boxes of five thousandth banknotes. This day was reported by the publication Fontanka. Yevgeny Prigozhin himself confirmed the information and stated that billions of cash were used to pay salaries and funeral money.

The correspondent of the publication watched what was happening at 12:30. The back doors of the white Gazelle were open, the FSB officers were unloading brown cardboard office boxes of about 60×40 cm from it.

Then there were already about eight boxes on the ground, some of them were open, they were filled with bundles of Russian banknotes, mostly red, similar to 5-thousandths, Fontanka writes. In the Gazelle itself there were several rows of such boxes, the newspaper reports.

According to Fontanka, during a search of the Trezzini Hotel, employees became interested in a white Gazelle, which did not belong to anyone from Academic Lane. They began to check it for explosives and found boxes full of money in it, the newspaper reports. According to him, we can talk about at least millions of rubles.

“Information disseminated in some media: during searches near Prigozhin’s office, a Gazel with money was found. More than one “Gazelle” was found in my possession, a “Gazelle” and two buses were found in me, in which there were money allocated for the issuance of wages, the so-called compensation “cargo 200” and other issues … PMC “Wagner” has been living for 10 years, using exclusively cash, which is written in the contract, and I carefully observe this … (Earlier.— “b”) everyone was satisfied with cash, and now they came with searches. It’s OK. The cash was indeed found,” the audio message posted by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s press service says.

Early in the morning of June 24, law enforcement officers also cordoned off the building of the PMC Wagner Center on Zolnaya Street in St. Petersburg, Kommersant-SPb reported. In addition, a cordon was seen near the Northern Versailles residential complex, where Mr. Prigozhin presumably lives.

On June 23, the founder of the PMC accused the Ministry of Defense of hitting his company’s positions and said that 25,000 people were going to “deal with it.” FSB excited case of incitement to armed rebellion.

Follow the situation with Prigogine in online broadcasts “b”.

Maria Fedotova