Prigozhin and his companies received $16 billion from the Russian budget - media

The structures of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin have earned almost 2 trillion rubles (about $16 billion) from government contracts.

Russian propagandist Dmitry Kiselev, who has now been instructed to "drag" Prigozhin, named the amount allocated to his companies PMC Wagner and Concord Holding from the state budget: 858 billion rubles and 845 billion rubles, respectively. These figures, according to Kiselev, reveal the scale of the entire business.

"Wagner, the private security company founded by Prigozhin, received more than 858 billion rubles under contracts with the state. This is almost a trillion. Under other contracts, Prigozhin's Concord Holding provided services worth 845 billion rubles. This does not mean that they have earned that much, but it still shows the scale of the business and the scale of their ambitions," the propagandist said.

Concord Holding was mainly engaged in food contracts. In particular, it supplied food to the Russian army.

After Prigozhin's unsuccessful mutiny, the Concord holding was deprived of its contracts for the supply of food to the Russian army.

It also became known that Concorde was deprived of tenders for the purchase of food for schools.

Russian dictator Putin, commenting on the military mutiny of the Wagner PMC, said that Concord earned 80 billion rubles a year on food supplies for the military.

"I hope that no one stole anything during these works or, let's say, stole less. But, of course, we will deal with all this," Putin emphasized. The day before, the Russian Defense Ministry terminated Prigozhin's contract.

Earlier, the Patriot media holding, which included media outlets and Prigozhin's so-called Troll Factory, was closed. At the same time, the websites of its publications were blocked by Roskomnadzor.