Dmitry Sytii under US sanctions for links to mercenary group founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is close to Vladimir Putin
Prigozhin, without providing evidence, claimed that the assassination attack was coordinated from France. “I have already contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation so that it initiates the procedure for declaring France a state sponsor of terrorism, as well as conducting a thorough investigation of the terrorist methods of France and its western allies – the United States and others.
Prigozhin has repeatedly accused the west of exploiting Africa and using underhand methods on the continent to maintain its control. A troll farm linked to the businessman has been accused of running disinformation campaigns attacking the west to prepare public opinion for Russian interventions. On at least one occasion, Wagner operatives have been discovered manufacturing evidence of French atrocities.
When imposing sanctions on Sytii in 2020, the US said he was the founder of the Prigozhin-linked mining company Lobaye Invest, which operates in CAR and elsewhere. An agreement with successive regimes in Sudan to extract and export gold there is thought to have proved very lucrative.
A series of bloody raids on artisanal mines in the lawless border zones between Sudan and CAR, previously
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