Mystery Wagner

The general director of Concord - Management and Consulting, which is being conducted by the business restaurant holding of the entrepreneur Evgeny Prigozhin, was Dmitry Utkin, RBC reports . The commander of a private military company with the pseudonym Wagner has the same surname, name and middle name as the new head of the company.

According to the SPARK-Interfax database, Dmitry Valerievich Utkin, a full namesake of Wagner, became the general director of Concord and Consulting LLC. The source of RBC surrounded by Prigozhin confirmed that we are talking about the commander of the PMC Wagner.

Meanwhile, Fontanka reports that the TIN of the new general director begins with numbers 4703, while the head of the Wagner PMC, the tax number begins with 2624. The TIN is issued to Russian citizens once and does not change. “Either to work in Concord Management and Consulting found the namesake and namesake of the odious commander - but it was necessary to find and persuaded him,” the publication notes. “The general director was appointed that Wagner and made a mistake with the TIN, which is unlikely.”

Later, the official representative of Prigozhin said that the entrepreneur has nothing to do with Wagner PMC. "We are not aware of the organization you mentioned. Evgeny Viktorovich also asked to convey that he was extremely surprised by the very fact of the existence of this company and has nothing to do with its activity," he said.

Changing the head of Concord Management and Consulting LLC is a private decision of the company owner, the businessman representative emphasized. He also assured that the new general director of Utkin had not held positions in Prigozhin's structures before.

On June 20, the US Department of Finance imposed sanctions against Wagner PMCs and two Prigozhin structures, Concord Catering and Concord - Management and Consulting. They are included in the "Ukrainian" part of the sanctions list. The commander of the PMC Utkin personally fell under the sanctions.

The sanctions personally against Prigozhinwere adopted in December 2016. He also got into the "Ukrainian" part of the list.

PMC Wagner, founded according to the media reports, in 2014, before the fall of 2015, fought in eastern Ukraine. Then she was transferred to Syria. It is known that Prigozhin is associated with this illegal structure.