Families of Wagner mercenaries killed fighting for Putin are given $60,000 compensation – and the number of payouts may be affecting Russia's economy
published last month by his company Concorde, Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said the families received"black cash" payments.they went to pickup points to collect the cash payments. They said they were advised not to put the money in bank accounts to avoid tax or other scrutiny.in a Telegram interview, reported by Al Jazeera, that Wagner lost 20,000 fighters in the monthslong battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that it spearheaded.
The payments for so many deaths would equal 100 billion rubles of cash flowing into Russia's financial system., the amount of cash not held by banks in circulation has risen in the last year.should attract rising deposits. The growing"shadow economy" also reduces the amount of tax revenue that's needed to fund Putin's war.that some families had yet to receive payments from Wagner. The outlet cited an anonymous Wagner fighter who told the VchK-OGPu Telegram channel in January that the group didn't pay out in the case of an execution, or if there was"no body."
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