[Bigiron]

US targets Wagner Group in curbs on gold firms suspected of funding mercenary force

The United States took aim at Russia's Wagner Group and imposed sanctions on Tuesday on companies it accused of engaging in illicit gold dealings to fund the mercenary force.

The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it slapped sanctions on four companies in the United Arab Emirates, Central African Republic and Russia it accused of being connected to the Wagner Group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The companies engaged in illicit gold dealings to fund the militia to sustain and expand its armed forces, including in Ukraine and some countries in Africa, the Treasury said. read more 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-a...023-06-27/

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The sanctions “disrupt key actors” in the group’s financial network and hobble its expansion.

“The Wagner Group funds its brutal operations in part by exploiting natural resources in countries like the Central African Republic and Mali,” Nelson said. “The United States will continue to target the Wagner Group’s revenue streams to degrade its expansion and violence in Africa, Ukraine, and anywhere else.”

The sanctioned companies include Midas Ressources SARLU, an African mining company affiliated with Prigozhin; Diamville, an African gold and diamond purchaser controlled by Prigozhin; Industrial Resources General Trading, a Dubai-based industrial goods distributor that has provided financial support to Prigozhin through its business dealings with Diamville; and Limited Liability Company DM, a Russia-based firm that participated in a gold selling scheme.

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Putin thanks Russian army for preventing ‘civil war’
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/27/russia-u...-2023.html

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Putin thanks Russian army for preventing ‘civil war’
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/27/russia-u...-2023.html

Update from Ukraine 25/03/23. It time for Wagner fighters to run away to Africa. To fight against who?. Russian Mercenaries Are Pushing France 1st, out of Central Africa and also Those Like China and the US. 

Wagner Group
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/18/rus...al-africa/

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The republic was one of just 14 countries to vote against a 2022 United Nations resolution calling on Russia to pay war reparations to Ukraine. 

The Central African Republic. Now China is in...Africa too.

CAR, has signaled its plans to be a importer of Russian grain and foodstuffs.  A visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.


Mali’s foreign minister pledged to deepen economic ties between the two countries—and blasted Western efforts to sanction Russia. 

When a coup brought a new military faction to power in Burkina Faso last fall. Wagner Boss. Prigozhin congratulating the coup plotters and their struggle against “colonialists.

[Alice Alicia]

As usual, US poking their noses into everybody else businesses.

Meanwhile their people in a mess.

[sgh]

As usual, US poking their noses into everybody else businesses.

Meanwhile their people in a mess.

That is why more 911 should occur in their homeland so they will wise up and not anyhow poke their noses into everyone else business.

[Migrant]

US take stones and hit own foot.

[singlon]

wagner grp are former convicts
they r all good fighters
like rambo
West is worried
https://youtu.be/-9C-2R4hs3o?list=PL1yqR...2A6fY9b1Q0