Prigozhin twice complained about Beglov in the prosecutor's office. What is known about the conflict of the creator of the PMC Wagner and the governor of St. Petersburg

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The creator of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin said to the Prosecutor General’s Office that the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov “created a criminal community in order to plunder the state budget,” and later demanded to check it under the article about the Stateizer. Prior to this, Beglov, not naming the name Prigozhin, said that the “famous businessman” “robs children” in the field of social nutrition in St. Petersburg.

The conflict between the entrepreneur, known as the “Putin’s cook”, and the scandalous governor of St. Petersburg has been going on for more than two years. "Paper" tells how Prigozhin opposed Beglov, that he was answered in Smolny and what this could be connected with.

This text was first published on October 31. We supplemented it on November 13 and 22 in connection with new statements.

Prigozhin accused Beglov of corruption - this is not the first time. The businessman calls the governor "a complete scum and a rare villain"

On Monday, October 31, the press service of the Concord company Evgeny Prigozhin reported that the businessman sent a “statement of crime” to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, which the governor Alexander Beglov allegedly could commit. The press service did not publish the text of the application, but noted that she sent a copy of Beglov himself.

Through the press service, Prigozhin publicly hinted that the governor created an “organized criminal community in St. Petersburg in order to plunder the state budget and enrich the corrupt officials in his environment.”

“Corruption concerns the majority of the city’s spheres of the city, in the statement they are all listed,” the Concord press service answered the question of Constantinople about claims to Beglov. - In addition to the governor, a large number of persons are involved in criminal schemes. The budget structure in this statement we did not specifically analyze. The volume of the application is about 30 printed sheets.

In Smolny and Prosecutor General’s Office, they did not respond to a scandalous statement. However, it was not the first: after the start of a full -scale war in Ukraine, Prigozhin already publicly accused Beglov of corruption - and even called the specific names of the governor’s assistants, who, in his opinion, are guilty of plundering the treasury.

On July 5, Prigozhin complained that the St. Petersburg administration broke off a contract with his company for the development of Gorskaya territory in fox nose, where a tourist area was supposed to appear. He told about this in an interview with Neva News - this media is a member of the Patriot media group, whose trustery is headed by Prigozhin himself.

“I spent a bunch of money on this [Project for the development of“ Gorskaya ”], attracted foreign companies that agreed to work with me, despite all the sanctions pressure,” the businessman said. - My company signed with Beglov at the 2021 economic forum an investment agreement, which, as a result, wiped her legs.

Prigozhin assures that he fulfilled all the terms of the contract, but Beglov terminated it and gave this site “supposedly under the yacht club, but, as they say, under a certain country club, where his dacha and his friend with criminal reputation should be located.”

What is known about the conflict around Gorskaya ? ↓

In June 2021, the St. Petersburg Investment Committee and Prigozhin, Megaline (Evgeny Prigozhin, owned LLC LACTA, whose subsidiary is Megaline, wrote Kommersant) during the PMEF signed an agreement on cooperation in the creation of a tourism area on the territory of the Gorskaya Protective structures complex On the Gulf of Finland.

However, even then in Smolny it was argued that this is only one option of two possible. According to the sources of Kommersant, the development of the site was also interested in the “financial and development organization with more significant resources”.

In June 2022, it became known that Smolny abandoned the project of the company affiliated with Prigozhin. The head of the St. Petersburg Investment Committee Roman Golovanov told Rotonta that the agreement was terminated because Megaline was going to build not only tourist facilities, but also production sites.

As a result, the development of “Gorskaya” took up structures close to Gazprom, Rotonda wrote . According to Smolny, the territory was supposed to become tourist, and the company, associated with Prigozhin, supposedly began to build production sites there, which is why they terminated cooperation with it.

What else Evgeny Prigozhin accused Beglov:

• On September 10, Prigozhin answered the question whether Governor Beglov did not support the war in Ukraine: “I can neither confirm or refute this behavior of Comrade Beglov. You drew the image of a terrible governor. But if such a governor existed, then I would say: “He is a finished bastard and a rare villain.”
• On October 4, Prigozhin already directly stated that Alexander Beglov is infringing on the rights of fighters of the private military company Wagner, who are fighting in Ukraine. According to the businessman, the soldiers “see nothing but harm” from the head of the city, who provides “tremendous support” of the Ukrainian army. The rights of participants in the Wagner PMC in St. Petersburg “are simply melted and crushed,” said Prigozhin.
• On October 20, Prigozhin wrote that Beglov “on the ball” worked for the first year as the governor. “Everyone expected that he [Beglov] will collect his brains in a heap and begin to do at least something. But, as we see, he simply brazenly deceived the Petersburgers, ”the businessman said, noting that he hopes: another candidate will win in the next election.
• On October 31, Prigozhin stated that Smolny is “not enough representative structure” to prevent the work of the “PMC Wagner Center”, which the businessman is going to open in St. Petersburg.

According to Rotonta, the conflict between Prigozhin and Beglov lasts at least two years, since 2020. “Paper” told in detail how the Loyal City Administration of the Prigofin Media Group and Bota began to criticize the governor. Then the reason was the poor cleaning of the city from snow and ice, a garbage collapse and a medical crisis during the next wave of Covid-19.

Prigozhin himself at the same time claims that he does not plan to "go to politics." However, at the beginning of the year, the businessman also denied that he had a conflict with Beglov (like the governor - his conflict with Prigozhin).

Update on November 13. Prigozhin asked the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Department of Military Counterintelligence of the FSB to check Beglov under an article about the Stateizer, the businessman’s press service said . The publication did not indicate what exactly the statement of Prigozhin was connected with.

Update on November 22. Prigozhin said that he helped Alexander Beglov become the governor of St. Petersburg and spent up to 2 billion rubles on it. According to him, “one important person” told him to spend “how much he wants” and promised to reimburse expenses, but did not do it. The entrepreneur claims that for the election of the candidate he hired a team of about 300 people, which included political technologists, sociologists, specialists from the fields of urban economy and urban planning. Beglov did not comment on this.

Smolny rarely responds to Prigogine. Beglov does not call him by name, but hints at the criminal schemes of the entrepreneur

The authorities of St. Petersburg publicly responded to the attacks of Evgeny Prigozhin towards Alexander Beglov at least four times. One more time - anonymously.

In September, a few hours after the publication of Prigozhin that Beglov allegedly did not support the war in Ukraine, the Smolny press service wrote : “St. Petersburg promotes the special military operation in every way. Medical institutions of the city provide all the necessary assistance to participants and their families. ”

Then the vice-governor Oleg Ergashev instructed to apply to law enforcement agencies to verify those who "distribute fake (false) information about the activities of the Government of St. Petersburg." Rotonda noted that in this way the authorities actually threatened the media criminal case, which Prigozhin owns.

Prior to this, in July, Beglov, in an interview with RIA Novosti, already called on Face distributors together to deal with Ukrainian and Western propaganda. This was regarded as an appeal to Media Prigozhin. “Those who have not yet stopped [criticizing the authorities of St. Petersburg], I urge you to think about the time in which we live, and direct our energy into a constructive direction. We can join the efforts at the front of the information war unleashed against Russia, ”he said.

Then, in July, a “high -ranking official” from Smolny anonymously answered “Fontanka” to Prigozhin voiced by the accusations that “a gang of people stuffing pockets” was managed by St. Petersburg.

The source said that Prigozhin’s attack on Beglov was “a private statement of a private entrepreneur who is fighting for his business interests.” But he emphasized that in the governor’s apparatus “drew attention to the passion and rashness, with which the entrepreneur rushes in words.”

“[Evgeny Prigozhin] is now doing a great responsible business for the country. It is associated with constant anxiety, extreme tension of emotional forces. It probably affects. We treat this with sympathy and understanding, ”the Fontanka quoted an anonymous official who hinted at the participation of the Wagner PMC, created by Prigozhin, in the war in Ukraine.

In April, Beglov himself publicly attacked the businessman, not calling his name. Reporting before the Legislative Assembly, the governor of St. Petersburg said that a certain “famous businessman” illegally earned through the sphere of social catering of St. Petersburg and “robbed the children” together “with a bunch of his semi -criminal comrades”.

“An unscrupulous business did not just deliberately bankrupt any competitors, he created his own media, his own security structures. In fact, in our city its own unlawful world was formed, ”Beglov mentioned. "Rotonda" noted that there is no doubt that this is exactly about Prigozhin.

At the end of 2021, according to the Rotonta, Beglov spoke at a meeting with the editor -in -chief of the St. Petersburg media that the city has “no unpreparedness” to implement Prigozhin’s projects: for example, to build the metro and park complex “ Buchov Buyan ”.

According to Beglov, in the retelling of the participant in the meeting, Prigozhin allegedly wanted to reform the education system in such a way that this would result in bankruptcy of existing social nutrition plants, which the city would have to buy from the businessman.

Update on November 13. The Vesna movement demanded that the Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee start the investigation against Prigozhin under the article “Murder”. Prior to this, the Wagner PMC published a video of the execution of its action movie.

The open conflict between Prigozhin and Beglov began after the initiation of the case against the head of the Social Staff Office of St. Petersburg, who is associated with the businessman

In November 2021, a criminal case was opened in St. Petersburg against Alexei Barabanshchikov, who headed the Social Power Office of St. Petersburg. He was accused of causing property damage by deception or abuse of trust (paragraphs “A” and “B” of part 2 of article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The investigation believed that drummers helped to win the contract to one of the market participants.

According to the Rotonta, the drummers are connected with Evgeny Prigozhin: before St. Petersburg, he worked in the Government of the Moscow Region, where Prigozhin supposedly received large state contracts for food supply to schools. On October 20, 2022, the court terminated the case against the ex-official, but Beglov had already appointed another vice-governor in his place.

In the same case, as the Agency noted , Oleg Lukin, a former top manager of the Concord group Evgeny Prigozhin, was held. He is associated with a group of St. Petersburg media and telegram channels, united in the Patriot group, which is headed by Prigozhin.

Political scientists and telegram channels considered that with the help of a criminal case, the governor of St. Petersburg "gave a worthy answer to the structures of Evgeny Prigozhin." The businessman himself claimed that this was "an attempt to eliminate a person [Barabanshchikov], who knew the true truth about the frauds of Beglov and his environment."

However, even before that, during the election of 2021, Prigozhin, according to the Rotonta interlocutors, failed to agree with the administration of St. Petersburg on the assistance to the candidates of the Rodina party, which is supported by the entrepreneur. As a result, most “Prigozhin” candidates were removed from the elections, and the media related to Prigozhin was accused of Beglov of violations.

There are many versions about the reasons for the conflict of Prigozhin and Beglov. So, the edition of Znak.com, citing two sources in Smolny back in 2020, wrote about the possible conflict of the governor and businessman. Allegedly, for help during the election, Prigogin asked Beglov to provide him with the opportunity to enter the “garbage market”, but was refused.

Previously, Prigozhin helped Beglov get the governor

The investigative center "Dossier" Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2020 published documents that allegedly belong to the employees of the entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to journalists, in the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg in 2019, Prigozhinsky political technologists helped Alexander Beglov:

• created him the image of an “effective manager”,
• gave him managerial advice,
• They offered competitors who would not interfere with the victory,
• ordered bots for laudatory comments,
• They were engaged in the discrediting of the opposition.

Sources of various media spoke about the participation of Politepozhin Political Technologists in 2019. Although political consultants close to the Kremlin also worked in the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg.

What else to read:

• What is known about the "PMC Wagner Center" in St. Petersburg.
• Medusa: Due to the support of the war, Alexander Beglov got closer to Putin and retained the post of governor .