The criminal case against Prigozhin for armed rebellion is still open, according to a Russian newspaper

The criminal case opened by the organization of armed rebellion against the head of the mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhinis still open, despite the fact that the Kremlin had assured that the businessman will not be prosecuted and that he will go into exile in belarusreports the daily Kommersant.

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The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office opened the case under article 279 of the Penal Code Russian on Friday night, when Prigozhin and his men announced that they had crossed from Ukraine the Russian border in the region of Rostovin the south, and that they had started a “march for justice” toward Moscow after denouncing an attack by the Russian Army against a mercenary camp in the Russian rear.

Although formations like Wagner are prohibited by the legislation of Russia, mediated the invasion of Ukraine, it became the main assault detachment of the Russian forces fighting on Ukrainian soil.

The boss of the wagner group denounced the disastrous management of the Russian military leadership, headed by the Defense Minister, Sergei Shoiguand the chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimovin the war in the neighboring country, which, he said, had cost the lives of some “100,000 Russian soldiers.”

After announcing the capture of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, headquarters of General Staff of the Southern Military District of Russia, and of approaching in the afternoon a column of mercenaries 200 kilometers from Moscowthe mediation of the Belarusian president, Alexander LukashenkoHe managed to stop the rebellion.

The agreement reached with Prigozhinwho then withdrew together with his men from rostov-on-don and throughout Sunday also from the Moscow and Voronezh regions (through which the highway that connects the south with the capital passes), consisted of sending the businessman into exile in Belarus in exchange for the criminal charge being withdrawn, for the He could be sentenced to between 12 and 20 years in prison.

The pact also included that mercenaries who joined the uprising of his boss and that those combatants who had not directly participated in it could sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense and subordinate themselves to the command of Shoigu and Gerasimov.

So much shoigu like the russian president Vladimir Putinthey had ordered that all units “volunteers” of Russia sign a contract with Defense Until July 1stsomething that Prigozhin before the uprising he had flatly rejected it.

It is currently unknown where the Wagner boss.

Source: Elcomercio

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