"Putin's cook" transferred 1 million to Navalny, the politician returned the money back

The St. Petersburg businessman and Putin’s cook Evgeny Prigozhin donated a million rubles to the Fund for the fight against the corruption of Alexei Navalny. According to the opposition policy, the fund decided to return funds or send them to charity, but in the end they stopped on the first version. "It is even sick that in our account there are money earned on the supply of rottens to kindergartens and schools," Navalny explained.

In December last year, Evgeny Prigozhin won the court of the Corruption Fund, according to the decision of which the FBK, Alexei Navalny and the lawyer of the Foundation Lyubov Sobol must pay a total of 88 million rubles. The lawsuit was related to the investigation of the FBK, in which the Fund accused the Condord power plant, which belonged to Prigozhin, of the supply of poor -quality food and the dysentery caused by this outbreak in Moscow kindergartens and schools.

A few days ago, Navalny said that he had no amount that the court decided to pay Prigozhin, announcing the liquidation of the FBK and the registration of a new legal entity.

• The companies of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is called the “Putin’s cook” in the media, has been in supply of food to educational, medical and state institutions throughout Russia since 2011. For nine years of business structures related to Putin’s cook, more than five thousand state contracts have concluded a total of 209 billion rubles. Last year, as calculated by the MBH Media, the net profit of companies amounted to more than 2 billion rubles.
• In addition, Evgenia Prigozhin is associated with the organization of a group of pro-government bloggers in St. Petersburg-the so-called "troll factory", as well as with the creation of the "private military company of Wagner", which took part in military operations in the east of Ukraine, in Syria and Africa.
• In the United States, an entrepreneur is accused of trying to interfere with the presidential election, he is included in the sanctions list. Prigozhin himself denies all the accusations against him.