Read Lyubov Sobol on who has now latched onto the Defense Ministry’s cash flows in place of Vasilyeva.
It’s... “Putin’s chef” — the same mysterious St. Petersburg restaurateur close to Putin who in recent years has been rapidly taking over state catering contracts.
Apparently, making money off schoolchildren and kindergarteners wasn’t enough, so now they’ve brought in the big boys too — the army. Fontanka (a St. Petersburg news outlet) recently wrote about the servicing of military bases, and the ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation) uncovered boiler fuel supplies as well.
All of these state procurements are being carried out in blatant violation of the law, and the total value of Prigozhin’s contracts has already reached... 40 billion rubles (about hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars). Quite a chef.