Prigozhin criticized the proposal to legalize the sending of convicts to the war zone

Prigozhin criticized the proposal to legalize the sending of convicts to the war zone



The founder of PMC Wagner, entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin, criticized the bill, which establishes the legal basis for conscripting prisoners to combat zones. Fighters who were enrolled to the "PMC Wagner" from the colonies.

Draft law on the participation of convicts in hostilities to the State Duma introduced Parliament of Bashkiria. The document says that the convict can be sent to the war zone by a court decision. One day at the front is proposed to be counted as 10 days in the colony. The issue of serving a sentence after hostilities should be decided by the court, the bill says.

“The use of convicts in hostilities must be done very carefully. I'm afraid that this law will mow down them under the same brush. But this is not the most important thing. Most importantly, prisoners should not replace those who must be mobilized by law,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin, his quotes press service of his company "Concord".

In mid-September, the network was published a video in which a man who looks like Yevgeny Prigozhin recruits prisoners from one of the Russian colonies to participate in a military operation in Ukraine. Among other things, the person in the video says that those convicted on "drug" and "sex" articles will not be able to get into the Wagner PMC, but there are rare exceptions. After six months in the special operation zone, the man in the video promised an amnesty to the prisoners.

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