Kremlin-linked businessman Evgeny Prigozhin allegedly donated one million rubles to Navalny’s shuttered Anti-Corruption Foundation

Evgeny Prigozhin, the catering magnate notorious for his close ties to the Kremlin and purported links to the Wagner PMC, allegedly donated one million rubles (nearly $19,000) to opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s recently closed non-profit organization, the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

“We thought: [do we] return it or send it to a charity? We decided that even the thought of money earned from the supply of rotten meat to kindergartens and schools laying in our account [made us] sick, so we sent the thief back his transfer,” Navalny wrote on Twitter.

• At the beginning of 2019, the FBK released an investigation that accused the restaurant and catering enterprise Concord of supplying contaminated food to Moscow schools and kindergartens in December 2018, causing a dysentery outbreak. At the time, the company belonged to St. Petersburg businessman Evgeny Prigozhin. Concord underwent a change of ownership in the fall of 2019.
• On July 20, Navalny announced the dissolution of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The decision came after a company allegedly linked to Prigozhin won an 88-million-ruble ($1.67-million) lawsuit against Navalny, FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol, and the FBK.