Prigozhin Surveillance Teams

Prigozhin’s structures paid stringers for eight months to follow Lyubov Sobol in 2019. In total, more than 11.5 million rubles were spent on surveillance

This is reported by the French magazine Paris Match. The journalists found out that Prigozhin’s people, whose names Lyubov named in her video about surveillance in 2019, really constantly followed her and filmed her on video if the “bosses” demanded it from them.

In the documents, the line of budget expenditures for this “project” is called “Sobol”. It says that the “project” concerns “the payment of stringers who will be present 24 hours a day with the specified persons, taking photographs or videos in accordance with a special mission.” Around the clock surveillance of Sobol was distributed among 2-3 workers (and in some months up to 9 people) in the form of shifts, for each of which the stringers were paid five thousand rubles.

French journalists have found documents that indicate that the surveillance of Lyubov Sobol lasted at least from March to November 2019. So, for example, in April 2019, 1.45 million rubles were spent on nine stringers

In addition, Prigozhin, through his RIA FAN, sabotaged the nomination of Lyubov in the municipal elections to the Moscow City Duma; then the employees staged a video with an alleged forgery of a signature for the nomination of a politician. As a result, the CEC denied Sobol registration for the elections.

It is interesting that both of these “projects” – both to discredit signatures for Sobol and to spy on her – were supervised by the notorious Igor Mangushev(in the third photo).

This is the same Prigogine mercenary who in August last year made a speech from the stage, holding in his hands the skull, as he said, of one of the defenders of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. In February 2023, Mangushev died in the hospital after a severe head wound received in the Lugansk region. Bummer