No arrest warrant for Prigozhin in Russia, but he's on FBI's most wanted list with $250,000 reward
The Daily Beast is reporting that a photo of Prigozhin, showing him in his underwear in what appears to be a Wagner Group field camp, surfaced Friday.
The photo was released by a Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel. which claims that it was taken on Wednesday. That claim could not be independently verified. If actual, it would be the first visual sighting of Prigozhin since the mutiny.
Belarusian media reported that the photo was apparently taken inside a newly constructed field camp for Wagner fighters in the town of Osipovichi.
Flightradar reportedly showed Prigozhin’s private jet arriving in Belarus on Monday evening, the Daily Beast reported.
Some Wagner fighters arrived at the field camp as early as Tuesday, Reuters reported. The Belarusian Defense Ministry on Friday announced that Wagner fighters had already begun training Belarusian troops.
Russian authorities have dropped insurgency charges, at least for now, against Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary Wagner Group, even though he lead a short-lived armed mutiny in which at least 10 Russian airmen were killed when their planes were shot down. But there’s still a U.S. arrest warrant for Prigozhin. He was placed on the FBI’s most wanted list after the Mueller special counsel investigation lead to his indictment by a federal grand jury for his alleged role in running the troll factory that interfered in the 2016 presidential election on Donald Trump’s behalf.
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