[Regnum] On June 27, the Public Relations Center of the Federal Security Service announced the termination of the criminal case on the armed rebellion.
“The criminal case initiated on the fact of an armed rebellion by PMC Wagner has been terminated,” the security service said.
The reason for the completion of the criminal prosecution in the FSB was that the participants in the rebellion on June 24 stopped their actions directly aimed at committing a crime.
On the night of June 24, members of the Wagner PMC, led by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin , entered Rostov-on-Don on military equipment. Another column headed towards Moscow.
On the morning of the same day, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a video message, called what was happening a rebellion. The head of state also informed colleagues from a number of partner and allied countries about the development of events.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko , with the consent of the Russian leader, held talks with Prigozhin and succeeded in stopping the movement of Wagner columns to the capital and de-escalating the situation. On the same evening, the fighters left Rostov-on-Don.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later said that Russian intelligence agencies were investigating whether Western intelligence was involved in the attempted rebellion. Earlier it became known that American intelligence received information about the impending rebellion, warned the US authorities, including Congress, but they did not transfer this data to their Russian colleagues.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Wagner PMC was fully provided by the state, including finances from the budget. For the period from May 2022 to May 2023 alone, more than 86 billion 262 million rubles were allocated for the maintenance of the Wagnerites. Thus, the company-owner of Concord earned 80 billion rubles on government orders.
The President noted that it is necessary to deal with the use of Concorde funds.
“I want to note and I want everyone to know about this: the content of the entire Wagner group was fully provided by the state ... From the Ministry of Defense, from the state budget, we fully funded this group,” the president said at a meeting with military personnel of the Ministry of Defense .
The head of state stressed that the Wagner group had always been treated with great respect, because, indeed, the fighters and commanders showed courage and heroism. Moreover, if the Russian military had not prevented the rebellion, it would have escalated into real chaos and civil war.
“I want us all to understand what happened and what would have happened if you hadn’t done what you did, and hadn’t fulfilled your military duty, and hadn’t shown loyalty to the oath and the Russian, Russian people. As always happens in such cases, the same thing happens always and everywhere: after armed rebellions, complete chaos and civil war ensue,” the head of state said.
He stressed that the fighters of the Ministry of Defense and other law enforcement agencies prevented the tragedy. Putin thanked the servicemen for their work.
According to media reports, the Concord company is owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who also headed the PMC. It was noted that the organization was engaged in the supply of food to Moscow schools, sanatoriums of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The Concord food plant began serving the capital's schools in 2011.