are protesting against a french company that wants to send russian nuclear rods to hungry i'm chris kolber walked into the program and there 36 hour, a 1000000000 if gave me per goshen. and his wagner group showed the world that vladimir putin's grip on power may not be as firm as many thought after. before heading a ruthless and brutal band of mercenaries for goshen serve time and jail, and then started a catering business one that made them rich things and no small part to his former patron and the criminal. a miss disability in the area of guinea pig ocean. after serving time in prison, he became put in skater. so where does the former complex money come from? in the 1990s, he opened a high end restaurant in st. petersburg. that's where he met vladimir putin and began winning, lucrative catering contracts from the government. in 2015,

for example, his company secured major contracts worth over $1000000000.00 to feed the russian army. alex, you know, bonnie's andre corruption foundation accused him of corrupt business practices. new opportunities arose for precaution window. russia antics crimea in 2014. that's when he co founded wagner group, a private military company. it has the photo loan side, the russian army, and ukraine. under wagner, group soldiers have also been involved and other conflicts in libya, syria, the central african republic, and molly, where they are also securing access to some resources. between 20172021. commodities companies controlled by precaution generated over $250000000.00 in profits. the bulk of that comes from deals in oil, gold, timelines, and other commodities from africa and the middle east. the wagner group has been on

the west and sanctions lives for years. as a result of human rights abuse allegations. those include murder, torture, and rape, in almost every country way it has been known to be access. and in order to be able to do all these things, the wagner go over seized a lot of money from the russian state. that's what the country leader latimer put and said this week, this is the temperature with community such as the book doesn't exist. and i am, but meanwhile, i want to know when you see a group of them i want you also know about this issue was it was an excellent support for the entire wagner group was fully provided by the state. we suggest the dude from the defense ministry from the state budget. it's a group. we are fully funded, this group to somebody from may 2022 to may, 2023 alone. with this data paid wagner. the equivalent of more than 900000000 euros

for maintenance and incentive payments. this we should with you for more. let's bring it in racks. a 1000000 has sees a fellow at the foreign policy research institute. welcome to the w. max. now is vladimir putin says the wagner group has received around $900000000.00 euro is almost $1000000.00 from the rest of the state. recently, put that figure into perspective for us. it certainly makes you know, $1000000.00 in russia. it takes you a long way, it's hundreds of kilometers of road paving a significant portion of us, their banks, the normal annual prophets. it is a large and substantial sum. what is you know? so interesting about it is that he also sat around a $1000000000.00. we're finding on so you're getting pedagogy and the head of wagner group through concord is catering and food services company from which you originally guess the name, the total shift. but i think it's also important to note that wagner in africa is

seen as a self sustaining organization. it has contracts for the extraction of mineral resources and the central african republic. and so dogs and elsewhere as well as training and security forces there and is earning money. and so that's not included in these $2000000000.00 in the last year alone. where, according to putting himself funneled to precaution, is it clear where exactly it is? money has come from how the kremlin financed or help finance the walking group. well, putting sudden statements that some of it came from the ministry of defense budgets . but of course, over the last year and a half, the kremlin has stopped sharing a lot of data. and even before the end didn't share all of and certainly not on defense spending. and so there's significant uncertainty there, but you know, him taking responsibility for wagner is particularly important as well. because the group was originally founded around 2014 and then used in africa part to be able to give the kremlin plausible deniability,

at least 2 uh its fellow travelers and just a media that all wagner is activity was actually by the russian state. and appleton is claiming responsibility for that. yeah, let's expand on that maximillian. what does it mean when putting acknowledges that the rest of the state has been financing a group which ultimately a turn against them as well? i think it raises real questions about his loyalty is within the lead. you know, we saw improvement yesterday. go out and do this sort of meet and greet during your visit in august on in the band, which is very out of character for him. particularly in recent years as been well known in the journal as even senior officials of other government representatives and had took warranty in for extensive periods of time. so i think this whole series of events have raised a lot of deeply uncomfortable questions for him. and we saw that in his last 2 addresses, which for me having, you know, watch struggling spaces for the better part of the last 20 years. we're remarkably almost out of character with what we know about him. a lot of important offices

that provisions catering business receives around $1000000000.00 on the rest of the state. we, you mentioned that these payments of putting says would be investigated. now. what does that mean? well, you know, another one of the interesting statements put in gave um the other day was you said, you know, uh well, i hope they haven't. so, and too much corruption isn't a knowledge part of the russian economy. and even, you know, clearly the highest levels of the russian states don't deny that it exists. but there are a lot of concerns now. and we've heard a number of comments from all the guards and people in the russian to lead off the records of the international media. worried about potential purges. there have been rumors now and over the last sort of 12 hours from some more in the know sources that sort of leak in the russian general was previously incremented ukraine is now the deputy commander who had been seen as a wagner allied, may have been arrested uh, so this really sets the stage for

a potential detentions of provisions, supporters, allies and even purchase of the lead support and uses this loyal maximillian has a fellow at the foreign policy research institute mex, thank you for your time. i to rely less on business with russia that has been the objective for many german companies and the face of the crime. this war when ukraine, germany did manage to win itself off russian gas deliveries. but in the other areas, the task apparently is even more difficult, particularly if business partners and interests are scattered across europe. in france and russia working together here in lincoln lower saxony, what's going on in the nuclear plant? a french companies come at home. the company refused to answer on camera and said they had no comment, despite russia's war and ukraine from a to him gets uranium from russian company

rose at home and some big business going on here with rosa tom with our tool anti nuclear activist, alexander event and russian environmental is vladimir sleeve, york, protested russian uranium deliveries to the plant. their critics of home at home and the e u, which they say is doing nothing against it and took them off in the future. the russian company rosa. tom also wants to participate in production here, highlighting a few elements that fit in russian designed reactors and now supposed to be manufactured. here was in many eastern european countries, like in the czech republic, soviet era, nuclear power plants are still in operation. they only function with special hex agonal, rosa tone, fuel elements. vladimir slips eoc who fled to germany from hooton's. russia has been warning against rosa tom's activities for years. ross with them is not on the company that produces nuclear power. it's a company created just print political influence of the legend reports in the

around the world and also to create critical dependence around the. ready on the russian technique. ready to the russian nuclear fuel and the russian engineers. here in hungary, rosa thom plans to build 2 new nuclear power plants, both powered with roasted tomb fuel elements. just like the patch nuclear power plant south of the capital, buddha passed the rows of tone. fuel elements currently used here will only last for another 2 years. building nuclear dependents on russia is a fatal mistake, says andras pad go from green peace. right now, the government is wholly reliant on the goodwill of putting for its multi 1000000000 euro nuclear power projects. hungry is dependent on the database of the suffering of civil set. them it showed the assumptions affect these kind of stop lies hungry would need. so a seat for under the contact of each able to tell us fuel. now there is no such

kind of company in the best number, the french company, some at home, leveraging to know how of rosa tom could step in and supply the appropriate fuel elements. unless that you impose the sanctions on the russian nuclear supplier. and that sounds really bloating every possible section of your the and union against ross have them because of the ones badly to build this nuclear power plant. ritual created dependence of european union and russell nuclear fuel. c. e. u has been cautious with sanctions against the russian nuclear industry out of consideration for hungry and other eastern european countries. but this scenario could change quickly. before we go, here's a look at the other global business stories making news to us. payments provide our visa announcement plans that require brazilian syntex startup pays more for $1000000000.00 a deal that will expand its footprint and left america and is believe to signal renewed confidence in the region. and then a funding slow down. the saw pablo based financial platform transact more than

$200000000.00. the content moderators from several african countries are sitting facebook for $1600000000.00, alleging low pay and sufficient mental health support spending their work day screening. traumatizing materials. the case being tried in kenya could have widespread implications for social media moderators around the world. spain's inflation rate drops to a 2 year low to 1.9 percent down from 3.2 percent and may energy and food prices used according to government data. but the spanish figure is unlikely to deter european central bank plans to high interest rates. data shows that inflation is rising in other parts of the rosa and that is our show. thanks for watching. have a successful day? the

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