On Monday, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said he had interfered in US elections and would continue to do so in the future, in a post on Russia’s Facebook equivalent VKontakte.
“We have interfered (in US elections), we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do.”
– Yevgeny Prigozhin
Prigozhin has been referred to as “Putin’s chef” because his restaurants and catering businesses hosts most of Putin’s dinners with foreign dignitaries.
The businessman has been accused of sponsoring Russia-based “troll farms” in an effort to influence American politics.
In September, he admitted to founding the Kremlin-aligned Wagner Group mercenary company, which operates in Syria, Africa and Ukraine.
In July, the US State Department offered a reward of up to $10 million for information on Prigozhin’s “engagement in US election interference”.
He has been hit by US, UK and EU sanctions.
