“Putin’s Chef” Admits Interfering In US Elections

Reuters reports:

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure who has been formally implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics.

In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia’s Facebook equivalent VKontakte, Prigozhin said: “We have interfered (in U.S. elections), we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do.”

Prigozhin, who is often referred to as “Putin’s chef” because his catering company operates Kremlin contracts, has been formally accused of sponsoring Russia-based “troll farms” that seek to influence U.S. politics.

Read the full article. Prigozhin earned international headlines last month when he vowed to execute convicts that were recruited by his mercenary group should they desert from the fighting.

Close Putin ally and sponsor of the Wagner group of mercenaries Yevgeny Prigozhin: “We have interfered [in U.S. elections], we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do.”https://t.co/RGYWfAMPzl

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