Media: Prigozhin’s Relatives & Friends Started Dividing His Billion-Dollar Business Empire

The fortune is estimated at more than a billion dollars.

Among the relatives and business partners of the deceased head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a struggle began for his huge fortune, which is estimated at more than $ 1 billion. The Russian opposition publication “We can explain” writes about this.

The 62-year-old “businessman” has managed to amass a lot of assets during his friendship with Putin. The profits of only eight of Prigozhin's main firms in 2022 amounted to about $20 million. In addition, he owned a lot of expensive real estate, luxury cars, private jets and a 121-foot yacht called St Vitamin.

According to Russian tradition, a lot of this property was distributed among numerous relatives and friends of the “businessman”. It is noteworthy that the struggle for Prigozhin's assets began even before his death.

Prigozhin's son Pavel owns at least six firms. Including Lakhta Plaza LLC, which builds business centers, hotels and residential buildings in St. Petersburg. In August, a few days before the death of the owner of PMC Wagner, the process of reorganization began there, that is, the company began to be cut into pieces.

Prigozhin's mother Violetta hid information about herself in state registers. But it is known that she was the founder of the Colors of Life Foundation, which organized exhibitions of paintings (including her own).

Prigozhin's wife inherited two companies that own historical buildings in St. Petersburg, and the Agat construction company. Although she previously owned the largest firms that are part of the empire of “Putin's cook”. According to journalists, Prigozhin's widow was removed from ownership of two of his largest companies, they came under the control of his longtime business partner Dmitry Koshara.

Numerous nominal owners are now in the actual ownership of firms earning on government contracts. They supply products to the army, schools and hospitals. There are dozens of such firms. According to journalists, the question of who will become the new real owner of these firms is now being decided.