MADRID, 7 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Yevgeni Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch close to the country’s president, Vladimir Putin, and founder of the Wagner Group, acknowledged this Monday that he had “interfered” in the past in democratic processes in the United States and has warned that he will continue to do so in the future.
Questioned about possible interference in the mid-term elections in the United States, scheduled for Tuesday, Prigozhin has acknowledged having interfered in the past, while defending continuing to do so in the present and in the future.
In this way, and in view of his close relationship with the Russian president, who has been called ‘Putin’s chef’, Prigozhin has dropped that, indeed, Moscow has intervened in previous elections in the United States. , according to CNN.
Although it is not possible to confirm the veracity of what Prigozhin points out, nor to ensure if he was serious, the Russian oligarch has stressed that this interference in democratic processes is done “carefully, precisely and surgically”.
US authorities have previously sanctioned Prigozhin for funding the Internet Research Agency, a notorious Russian ‘troll farm’ accused of meddling in several recent US elections.
Last September, Prigozhin also admitted to founding the Wagner Group, a private group of mercenaries accused of war crimes in Africa, Syria and Ukraine.
