As Prigogine from a street robber became one of the most influential people in the Russian Federation - an investigation
However, he was able to occupy his place among those who governing the Russian Federation today thanks to his close relations with the criminal world in the country. About it writes the OSINT Molfar community in the detailed profile of the businessman and the owner of the Wagner Group. Prigogine was born in 1961 in St.
Petersburg or Murmansk-the accurate place for analysts failed to find out [in Russian and Ukrainian "Wikipedia" the place of birth of the businessman was indicated by Leningrad-the current St. Petersburg]. Two years after graduation, in 1979, the Russian received his first criminal record for theft, but the term was conditional.
Two years later, in 1981, Prigogine was sentenced to 13 years in prison in the enhanced regime colony on a set of articles, including robbery and involvement of minors in prostitution. Together with his accomplice, he beat and robbed the woman on the street. From their victim, criminals removed gold earrings and shoes. Before that, the future businessman has already robbed several apartments.
Russian journalist Dmitry Zapolsky in his book "Putinburg" writes that it was in prison that Prigogine was called "Pedophile Zhenichka", because he was engaged in imprisonment and involved minors in prostitution. Zapolsky also claims that much later, when Prigogine had already owned the restaurants, he ordered the guard to rape the waitress in one of his institutions and personally watched the process. After that, the girl was given a thousand dollars for silence.
Despite the fact that Prigogine was to serve his sentence until 1994, he was pardoned in 1988, and in 1990 he left the settlement. The former criminal offense immediately opened several points for the sale of hot dogs in St. Petersburg. This allowed him to earn his first capital and approved the decision to build a business in the field of catering. He met Vladimir Putin in 1991 thanks to gambling. At the moment, as analysts write, they were both only "secondary partners for real big businessmen.
" It was the future president, as the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, was responsible for casino and hotels in the city. Prigogine has already become a partner of large businessmen who directly owned gambling establishments. So Putin and Prigogine began cooperation on business issues. However, a similar situation and ambitions brought them closer. In 1996, a former criminal criminal opened his first restaurant in Stari Customs in St. Petersburg.
The well -known Moscow thief was spoken by Prigogine, nicknamed "Grandfather Hassan". Since 2012, when Putin became the president of Russia for the third time, Prigogine - at that time, a large businessman not only in the field of catering, but also in construction - won state tenders. So his company Concord began to provide the Russian army with food. From 2014 to 2015, Concord received state -owned states worth 10. 3 billion rubles (over $ 231 million) for cleaning in barracks.
In total, in 2015, Prigogine won tenders from the Ministry of Defense for catering, cleaning and construction for a total amount of 68. 6 billion rubles (more than $ 1. 5 billion). It is impossible to calculate the exact number of assets that today belong to Prigogine and its loved ones, analysts emphasize.
However, according to the information available now, it can be argued that the businessman's family has 15 cars with a total value of more than $ 300,000, a cottage on the Black Sea, a private house, an elite LCD consisting of 45 homes, yachts and aircraft. "He is one of the pillars on which Vladimir Putin's regime is kept," Molfar sums up.
We will remind, on January 18, Prigogine announced the rapid closure of YouTube video hosting in the Russian Federation and threatened measures of influence against those who continue to use it. He also called the Google Corporation video service "Information Plague of Our Time.