Founder of Wagner PMC warned about the recruitment of criminals in prisons by foreign anti-Russian groups
Source: still frame from a video with the head of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The founder of the private military company (PMC) Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, issued a warning about the illegal and dangerous for Russia activities carried out in places of deprivation of liberty by citizens cooperating with groups abroad, including the notorious allegedly humanitarian project Gulagu.net. A statement about this on Tuesday, April 18, appeared in the Telegram channel «Prigozhin's Cap».
“According to the information we receive from prisoners and former prisoners, a group of people, including former prisoners and employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service, actively cooperates with foreign groups, including Gulagu.net”, — says the message of the head of the Wagner PMC.
Prigozhin added that this «group of persons» collects compromising evidence on serving sentences and former prisoners, which is associated with these people getting into various «fornication situations», including often «stretched ones». In order to use this compromising evidence, they use the contacts of Vladimir Osechkin* (recognized by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as a foreign agent), who was in a low social position in one of the camps in Russia and then fled abroad.
The founder of Wagner PMC noted that for a long time the materials obtained in this way were used to receive money and commit various illegal actions. “However, during the passage of the NMD, due to the fact of the war in which the Russian Federation is participating, this compromising material began to be used for more global purposes,” he explained. — At the moment, there is every reason to believe that prisoners recruited in this way, who have «nothing to lose», may, as a result of recruitment, commit illegal actions more significant — the elimination of various persons who protect the interests of the Russian Federation, sabotage, including in the front zone, carrying out sabotage and terrorist acts on the territory of the Russian Federation.”
Based on the available information, the head of the Wagner PMC considered it his duty to report what was happening to the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He stressed that his organization is ready for cooperation and can provide assistance to counter this threat, this «attempt by foreign intelligence services that use blackmailing citizens of the Russian Federation to harm our country.»
Earlier, MK announced the initiation of a criminal case against the founder of the Gulagu.net project, Vladimir Osechkin*. The press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation stated that he was charged under the article on “discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.”
The day before, Osechkin* published a video showing sexual violence against a former Wagner PMC fighter, Azamat Uldarov. With this fact, the former prisoner, who calls himself a human rights activist, admitted that the words of the ex-«Wagnerian» that Osechkin * blackmailed him are true. Uldarov claimed that it was the so-called human rights activist who forced him to confess on camera to the murder of Ukrainian civilians, including children, threatening otherwise to post a video of him being raped in the colony on the Internet. “I used to be imprisoned, and Osechkin * has compromising evidence on me,” said the former fighter of the Wagner PMC. “He has a videotape of me being raped in the colony. I didn't want it to get on the Internet.» Yevgeny Prigozhin himself claims that Osechkin* received the video featuring Uldarov from corrupt officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation.
*Vladimir Osechkin was recognized by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as a foreign agent.