The presenter Dmitry Kiselev, in the Sunday program of Vesti Nedeli on Rossiya-1, without indicating the source of his data, cited the estimated amount of revenue from Yevgeny Prigozhin's companies under government contracts.
«Founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a private military company» Wagner" within the framework of contracts concluded with the state, it received a little more than 858 billion rubles. This is under a trillion,” Kiselev said. — Under other contracts, Prigozhin's holding «Concorde» provided services worth 845 billion rubles.
At Rossiya-1, they did not specify for what period these state contracts were concluded. Their estimate exceeds the amounts that were previously named by independent journalists in investigations on the participation of Prigozhin's companies in public procurement. So, Current Time estimated the volume of government contracts of the businessman's structures from 2011 to the beginning of 2019 at 209 billion rubles.
Kiselev just announced the Kremlin's final training manual on Prigozhin's rebellion. Here's what they wrote there in a week — I cut the main points for you. So:
— Everything happened because of money, Prigozhin's greed, and again because of money, from which Prigogine «blew the roof»
— Kiselev called… pic.twitter.com/wJsQbzvqgl— Here Shepelin (@ilya_shepelin) July 2, 2023
President Vladimir Putin, a few days after the rebellion, said that over the past year — from May 2022 to May 2023 — more than 86 billion rubles were spent to finance the Wagner PMC from the Russian budget. 80 billion over the same period, according to him, Prigozhin's Concorde received in public procurement, and the Russian authorities directed 110.1 billion rubles for insurance payments to mercenaries and their families.
Numerous Prigozhin's companies participated in competitions to supply food to military and civilian structures, including schools and medical institutions. In addition to food, Prigozhin's structures also made money in other areas of defense orders — energy and water supply, repair of barracks and cleaning at military facilities.
The businessman himself did not recognize many of the companies as his own, and formally they belonged to his employees and other nominal owners. Fontanka, in a piece of news deleted after its release, claimed that after the mutiny, “600 seals from countless nominal companies” were confiscated at Prigozhin’s headquarters.