US sanctions firms funding Wagner Group via illegal gold mining

News Snapshot:

One of the sources of funding for the mercenary Wagner Group is illegal gold trade in Africa . The US treasury yesterday (June 27) sanctioned four companies and one individual connected to the Wagner group and its founder and owner Yevgen y Prigozhin. Both the Russian mercenary business and its chief, who just led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin, have previously been sanctioned by the the US, the EU, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Japan. In January this year, the US named the group a “transnational criminal organization.” Advertisement On the same day as the most recent sanctions, a...