But already in the summer, the leaders of the thieves’ environment became aware that the recruitment of prisoners to PMCs became for its initiators an even larger-scale business project that brought in huge amounts of money, including in the leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service: those who were able to pay 6-10 million rubles in cash to the PMC cash desk for a fictitious contribution to lists of criminals going to the front immediately after filling out the fake documents were released right at the exit from the penitentiary colony with the only condition “not to be exposed” for six months (until the fake contract). Hence the cases when people were caught in civilian life posing as fighters from the Wagner PMC with weapons or drugs, and then these stories were immediately washed away.
The source says that business with prisoners displeased Shakro (and nothing was received from the common fund), so the leadership of the 8th department of Directorate “K” of the FSB (control over the leaders of the criminal world) advised Prigozhin personally not to enter IK-2 of the Krasnodar Territory in September last year in during the next recruitment. By this time, the world of thieves already knew that, contrary to the promises of recruiters, prisoners on the front line were used as cannon fodder and penal battalions, so that only a few who had already become disabled would be able to return to freedom from the front line.
Meanwhile, Shakro himself was transferred to a strict regime instead of parole. Prigozhin did not keep his word. And, according to the interlocutor, Shakro became extremely angry.
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