Wednesday 28 June 2023
I had to go to a doctor an hour and a half away today. I couldn’t wait to get home and monitor the war against Ukraine.
Notes on the News
- It seems that Prigozhin is in Belarus, but I think the confirmation for this is an announcement by Lukashenko. I’m not sure he is a reliable source.
- It is also being reported that Prigozhin had to start this (whatever it was) coup attempt early because the Kremlin found out about it.
Prigozhin’s catering company poisons children (2019)
- In 2019 The Moscow Times reported that some 130 cases of food poisoning among children in part of Moscow lead parents to file a class-action lawsuit against Concord catering.
- Anti-corruption investigators tied the firm to “Kremlin-linked” catering magnate Yevgeny Prigozhin.
- Even though Prigozhin denied any connection with Concord, a press release from Concord said Prigozhin had paid $275,000 to 145 parents who had filed complaints after food poisoning.
- Another catering company called Shkolnik, reportedly part of Concord, was fined in the case.
- An anti-corruption activist said that the payout effectively confirmed Concord as a “serious offender.”
- She asked why, if the company was guilty of food poisoning, it still had contracts to feed Russian children.
- “Prigozhin-linked companies have signed nearly 5,400 state contracts worth $3.2 billion with the military, schools and hospitals since 2011, the U.S.-funded Current Time news channel reported in February of 2019.”
- Three Progozhin-linked companies have been indicted in the US, including Concord over an alleged criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper with the US presidential elections.
Law, Power, and Justice 
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