In his youth he nicknamed Jaco, wrote about Putin only in capital letters, and got into business thanks to a classmate

"Project" released a large material about Prigozhin. Here are some facts from it

The publication "Project" has released a lot of material about the life of businessman Evgeny Prigozhin. The article “Portrait of Evgeny Prigozhin, a personal sadist under the President of Russia” covers the life of the founder of the PMC Wagner from his youth, when he sat in prison several times, until a military rebellion on June 24, 2023. Much of the article “Project” was already known, however, the publication was published by previously unknown facts about Prigozhin, based on the memoirs of employees of its companies, criminal accomplices and e -mail hacks. Medusa thesis gives the most interesting of them.

• Prigozhin in his youth bore the nickname Jaco and became the leader of the group of robbers at the age of 18, although his accomplices were older. When Prigozhin immediately after school fell on the theft for the first time, he was put in the same camera with recidivists, and he claimed that he "fanned them."
• During the first period in the colony, Prigozhin lost the phalanx of the ring finger of his left hand, but the injury was most likely industrial.
• Prigozhin got into a big business thanks to his classmate Boris Spector and his criminal partner Mikhail Mirilashvili. At first he became one of the top managers of the network of their retail stores in St. Petersburg, and then received money from them for an independent business-restaurant.
• Prigozhin’s first restaurant was called “Old Customs”, it opened in 1995. At the end of his term, the mayor of the city Anatoly Sobchak began to visit there, about then Vladimir Putin first appeared there.
• The main “springboard” for the businessman, writes “Project”, was the restaurant of New Island, opened in 1997 on a former walking ship in the center of St. Petersburg. In this restaurant, in 1999, a meeting of Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin with the head of the IMF Michel Campessu was held-and then, when Putin became president, he began to accept the heads of other states there. In 2000, he met there with Japanese Prime Minister Esiro Mori, in 2001-with France President Jacques Shirak, in 2002-with US President George Bush. Prigozhin was able to get closer to Putin with the help of President Vladimir Kozhin's managers.
• After meeting Putin, Prigozhin got rid of old partners. All the restaurants of Mirilashvili, who by that time was the accused in the case of abduction and murder, “suddenly went to Prigozhin,” writes Project.
• Many people who know Prigozhin talk about his tendency to violence. So, in the mid-2000s, his company did not pay about 200 thousand rubles to two workers-supposedly as a punishment for bad work. When they arrived at Prigozhin’s office, his guard beat them several times and “threw it out of the gate”. Prigogine himself once hit his driver with his foot, as he was in a hurry. In his office, writes “Project”, violence “was put on stream”, and a special person followed this.
• Investigations of cases of crimes committed by Prigozhin did not conduct law enforcement agencies at all or carried out as formally as possible. It is known about at least one and a half dozen cases when his employees were suspected of beating people who ended in death or serious harm to the health of victims - but no one was responsible for them.
• Prigozhin waiters during the service of receptions with the participation of the country's leadership eavesdropped on conversations - and sent him reports on conversations. Prigozhin himself personally worked at key events and “enthusiastically noted his conversations with the leadership of the country,” writes Project. Prigozhin always spoke about Putin "with demonstrative respect and even in the third person wrote in big letters about him - he."
• Prigozhin’s first political project was the Troll Factory. According to one version, he created it after conversations with Vyacheslav Volodin. Prior to this, the film “Anatomy of Protest” was shot at Prigozhin's expense, which said that people are allegedly taken to the opposition rallies for money.
• Wagner PMC was present at least in 13 countries of Africa. Prigozhin regularly engaged in African projects - he called up with his employees, listened to reports and gave instructions. In these countries, Prigozhin was engaged not only in military affairs, but also by business - he mined diamonds and gold, and also produced coffee.
• Prigogine was treated for a long time from abdominal cancer and underwent therapy. According to the "project", now the "tumor formation process is like stopped." However, due to illness, the businessman observes a hard diet and leads a healthy lifestyle. “Those who worked for a long time under Prigiroen, believe that the disease could become one of the reasons for its particularly shaken behavior recently,” the project writes.
• Prigozhin’s environment is now writing off his rebellion on a impulsive character. Allegedly, to the question of what it was, he replied : "Fent."