Sources of the Cheka-OGPU confidently identified him as Alexander Grigoryevich Maloletko, Prigozhin’s “right hand”. Maloletko is the main character of the criminal case of hacking into messengers and the phone of Alexander Vinokurova, Sergei Lavrov’s son-in-law. However, as it turns out, not the main one.
We familiarized ourselves with Maloletko’s verdict of December 2021 and found such interesting testimony there (the verdict is impersonal, we inserted the missing names). “Later on the same day, he called Maloletko and told him that number No.. belongs to Alexander Vinokurov, who is the son-in-law of someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. In response to this information, Maloletko explained that he knows who owns number No., namely Alexander Vinokurov, and also said that there is nothing wrong with receiving the data of the specified subscriber, since the “customer” is also a high-ranking person and has great connections.”
Let’s guess together what kind of high-ranking “customer” with “great connections” is this, who extremely dislikes Lavrov and gave Maloletko’s command to hack the messengers of the foreign minister’s son-in-law?
However, the investigation did not look for the customer, but cleverly formulated what happened: “Maloletko… out of selfish interest, under circumstances unknown to the investigation, acted as the organizer of the crime and financed it.” Prigozhin’s “right hand” was sentenced to a state fine of 50,000 rubles.
When sentencing, it was also taken into account that Maloletko was awarded three Orders of Courage. To this we can add the “Cross of Military Valor” received in the Central African Republic.
Prigozhin, according to the Cheka-OGPU, was not interrogated in the case.
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