Chief of Wagner PMC presses new charges against Governor of St. Petersburg, suspecting him of treason
Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Chief of the Wagner Private Military Company, has pressed charges against Aleksandr Beglov, the governor of St. Petersburg; this time, Prigozhin suspects the official of high treason.
Source: press service of Concord, Prigozhin's company, in the VK social network
Quote from press service: "The legal service of the company Concord informs that today [13 November – ed.], Yevgeniy Prigozhin sent a statement with a request to conduct an investigation against Alexander Beglov, the Governor of St. Petersburg, to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation and Federal Counterintelligence Service of Russia, under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (High Treason)".
Details: The press office did not disclose any details of the statement.
Background:
- Earlier, Concord had already reported that Prigozhin demanded to check Beglov for "plundering the state budget".
- According to the Russian media, there is a long-standing conflict between the governor of St. Petersburg and the founder of the Wagner PMC.
- Russian Telegram channels also reported that recently, the State Construction Supervision of St. Petersburg refused to put into operation the PMC Wagner Centre business centre.
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