Media announce continuation of investigation against PMC head Wagner over mutiny
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On the morning of Monday, June 26, the media, citing sources, began to inform about the continuation of the investigation into the criminal case against the head of Wagner PMC; Yevgeny Prigozhin after the armed uprising.
One of the first to report on this was Kommersant, citing an unnamed source. The publication reported that “on the morning of June 26, the criminal case <…> is not legally terminated. It was also stated that the case is being investigated by an “investigator of the investigative department of the FSB”.
“The case has not been closed, the investigation is ongoing”, – Interfax relayed the words of its source from the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.
A similar message was sent by the RIA Novosti agency, also citing a partner source from the prosecutor's office: “The criminal case against Prigozhin has not been closed.”
< p> Proceedings against Prigozhin under Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation began on the evening of June 23. On the evening of June 24, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that in accordance with the results of the negotiations with the participation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the criminal case will be closed. she did not express the beginning of the uprising, she spoke for the first time only on Monday evening, & nbsp; and precisely to the issue of the criminal case. She wrote on her Telegram channel that “now they are discussing a lot: they started criminal proceedings and then released her” and “this is a mockery of legal standards.” According to Simonyan, "legal norms– these are not the commandments of Christ and not the tablets of Moses” and in “some exceptional critical cases” the legal norms of “walking through the forest”.