Yevgeny Prigozhin was invited by the FSB in St. Petersburg to pick up his rifles and handguns in the wake of his failed mutiny.
against Russia’s military brass, was invited back into the country to collect his massive cache of weapons — just days after reclaiming $100 million seized last month.
Prigozhin, 62, was also reunited with a Glock pistol engraved with his name that had been gifted to him by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu before their public falling-out over the Ukraine war. Two days before Prigozhin’s trip to St. Petersburg, he was reportedly given back more than $100 million in cash and gold bars that were seized by Russian law enforcement officials from a minivan and another vehicle during the Wagner Group’s short-lived insurrection.
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