Prigozhin asks FSB to investigate St. Petersburg governor for treason

Businessman Evgeny Prigozhin’s press service reports that Prigozhin sent requests to the FSB and the Prosecutor General to investigate St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov for high treason.

The press release did not specify Prigozhin’s reason for the request. “Details of the request have not been disclosed,” it said.

At the end of September, various pro-Kremlin sites (including Politonline and Pravda.ru) began circulating claims that Beglov’s alleged daughter owns real estate in France. In November, a source close to Beglov suggested to Meduza that this could be grounds for suspicion of treason.

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This is not the first time that Prigozhin has “complained” publicly about Beglov to the authorities. On October 31, his press service announced that he had asked the Prosecuctor General to check “the possibility that the governor had created an organized crime group.”

It is believed that relations between Beglov and Prigozhin soured because the St. Petersburg city administration was unwilling to “give away” state contracts for large projects to Prigozhin’s businesses.

In early November, Prigozhin’s company Concord reported that the St. Petersburg state construction supervision authority refused to grant a permit for operations for the newly built PMC Wagner Center.