In November 2022, the Convoy PMC launched a telegram channel and posted an advertisement for recruiting volunteers for the war with Ukraine. Average salary – 200-300 thousand rubles per month. There are only two requirements: male gender and age under 60 years. To train new mercenaries, the PMC acquired its own training base in Crimea and secured support of the Russian-appointed governor Sergei Aksenov.
We found out that “Convoy” receives money for the maintenance of mercenaries from Putin’s friend Arkady Rotenberg and VTB Bank (69% of shares belong to the state). Transfers arrive in the form charitable donations. In a month and a half, the PMC received 437.5 million rubles.
Of these:
💸120 million ₽ – from the Rotenberg company
💰200 million ₽ – from VTB
👛the rest comes from private companies.
The commander of the “Convoy” with the call sign “Mazai” is St. Petersburg security guard Konstantin Pikalov. His military experience consists of conscript service at a military schoolbut ChOPovets is good knew people from the GRU – one, military translator Stanislav Poluzanov even became his deputy in “Convoy”. Pikalov was also interested in the history of the Cossacks and went to Harvardtrying to impress professors with his own version of a conspiracy theory popular among security forces.”Public safety concept” Spoiler:
Pikalov spent years looking for himself in the military business, but Convoy’s business took off only after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when they began to take both prisoners and private security officers to the war.
How appeared new PMC, who else is it sponsors and can she repeat fate “Wagner” – in the new investigation “Dossier”
https://dossier.center/konvoy/ (with VPN)
Cossacks, elf and Arkady Rotenberg
We tell you how the Convoy PMC works and who finances it
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