Born Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, he is a Russian oligarch. He was born on June 1,1961 to Violetta Prigozhina in Leningrad. He has close ties with the Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Yevgeny controls a whole network of companies. He is well as Putin’s chef because Putin has attended dinners hosted by his restaurants and catering businesses.
He was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment under charges of robbery, fraud, and involving teenagers in crime in 1981. Yevgeny, his companies, and associates face economic sanctions and criminal charges in the U.S.
Yevgeny operations are strongly integrated with Russia’s defense ministry and its intelligence arm according to investigations from Bellingcat.
Wagner group is a mercenary group that has been involved in various actions as a private military contractor.
Yevgeny has been closely linked with this group but in a recent interview, he denied having a link with the group.
He has also denied any involvement in the group’s alleged assassination plot for Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Wagner group conducted an operation against the US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria in an attempt to take an oil field.
Yevgeny is married to Lyubov Valentinpvna Prigozhina. She is a pharmacist and also owns a network of boutique stores. They have a daughter called Polina.
