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Prigozhin's close associate, who participated in spying on Lavrov's son-in-law, drowned while fishing
A military man from the Leningrad region and a participant in the war in Ukraine, Andrei Tkachenko, associated with the Wagner PMC, was found dead on Segozero in Karelia. In 2020, he was involved in the case of surveillance of Alexander Vinokur, the son-in-law of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and a former member of the board of directors of Magnit. The Agency drew attention to this.
According to Daily Karelia, Tkachenko came to Karelia for fishing with his friend Dmitry and his eight-year-old son. On October 28, they rented a boat and went to the lake, where a storm arose and the boat capsized 400 meters from the shore. The publication notes that the child managed to swim to the nearest island. At the same time, Daily Karelia does not report on Dmitry’s fate.
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In 2021, Novaya Gazeta published an investigation into the theft of Alexander Vinokur’s correspondence. Tkachenko was a defendant in the case and one of the last, as the publication writes, links in the chain of information transfer. This allowed journalists to conclude that the military man was not far from the person who ordered the surveillance. For his work, Tkachenko received 270 thousand rubles.
According to Novaya Gazeta, Tkachenko officially worked in law enforcement agencies, but the journalist could not find out either the position or the unit. At the same time, since 2015, the military man flew to Krasnodar, Rostov, Beirut, Istanbul, Dubai and Doha, accompanied by the same people, probably associated with the Wagner PMC.
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Novaya Gazeta claims that at least three of Tkachenko’s fellow travelers are related to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s personal security - this has been documented. Another accompanying military man turned out to be Rafael Slaymanov, who in 2019 took the post of general director of the Euro Policy company, associated with Prigozhin’s structures.
The reasons for the surveillance, according to the publication, remained unknown. “Perhaps there are intersections in business. Perhaps Mr. Vinokurov was an intermediate target, and the customer was interested in information related to his father-in-law Sergei Lavrov. Perhaps this is something personal that cannot be assumed,” wrote Novaya Gazeta.
Daily Karelia notes that since November 2022, Tkachenko has participated in the war in Ukraine as a volunteer. He served in the Belgorod sabotage and reconnaissance group with the rank of senior lieutenant. After returning from the war, the officer got a job in the security service at his friend's company. Before this, he was allegedly also a participant in the war in Syria.
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