ChrisO_wikiJul 2, 2023
1/ Yevgeny Prigozhin's business empire is rapidly being dismantled. It's lost its contract to provide (rotten, infected, adulterated) food to the Russian army, and his media empire is shutting down. Thousands of his staff have been made redundant, many with no severance pay. ⬇️
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2/ Until Prigozhin's mutiny last month, his Concord Group was the Russian military's biggest food supplier. The Russian government paid it 845 billion rubles ($9.6 billion) under a contract with the Russian MOD's procurement arm, Voentorg. That has now been cancelled.
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3/ Concord also has the dubious title of being the MOD's most-sued contractor, with 560 lawsuits being filed in 2022 alone for supplying the Russian army with food contaminated with bacteria, insects and worms, and scams such as substituted ingredients.
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4/ "Look out, news" (ON) reports that Concord's many holding companies have been "working intermittently since 23 June and have been waiting for inspections, destroying documents in the meantime by order of the management.

"It was expected that the entire document flow should have been handed over to the new owners by 15 July . But yesterday the employees were told that because of the breakdown of the contract between Voentorg and Concord they would be dismissed."

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5/ Concord's several thousand employees – who were engaged in feeding the military and supplying food to hospitals and to the occupied areas of Ukraine – have been dismissed with 'resignation letters', which are communicated strictly verbally, and no severance pay.
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6/ It's unclear what impact Concord's demise will have on military food logistics in occupied Ukraine. The situation is already reportedly very bad, with frontline troops complaining they lack food and water. It's unlikely that Concord's services can be replaced immediately.
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7/ Similarly, Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group has shut down virtually overnight. Four sources have told ON that employees of the group's outlets, which included RIA FAN, Nevskie Novosti, Ekonomika Segodnya and other publications, were told to stop working from 3pm on 30 June.
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8/ A now-former employee of one of the publications says the editor-in-chief announced their dismissal and promised they would get their remaining salaries and severance pay. The employees of his media companies reportedly went out to celebrate a "wake" afterwards.
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9/ One employee says: "We've been working remotely all week. The website was blocked, a couple of days later the VK page was blocked, we were left with only the Telegram channel. We've been told since Monday that maybe we'll be unblocked and we'll keep working. And today they wrote [that we are closing down] in the work chat. Wages will be paid." /end

Sources:
🔹 https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/17531
🔹 https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/17545

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