{"id":12877,"date":"2018-04-09T18:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=12877"},"modified":"2018-04-09T18:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:43:43","slug":"pulp-fiction-of-pmc-wagner-murderers-drug-addicts-and-rapists-in-putin-s-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/pulp-fiction-of-pmc-wagner-murderers-drug-addicts-and-rapists-in-putin-s-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulp Fiction of PMC \u201cWagner\u201d: Murderers, Drug Addicts and Rapists in Putin\u2019s Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

The volunteers of InformNapalm<\/a> volunteer intelligence community, together with the team of the project \u201cIhtamnet_m0209\u201d<\/a> and the hacktivists of the Ukrainian Cyber \u200b\u200bAlliance<\/a>, collected data on the Russian mercenaries from PMC \u201cWagner\u201d that have criminal past. Many of them participated in the seizure of the Crimea and later fought in Donbas and Syria. Some served in Russian special operations units but were fired and served sentences for various crimes. Some were caught on petty thefts, robbery, others were convicted for beatings, for inciting ethnic hatred and beating up foreigners. But some of them have more serious crimes in their records: manufacture and sale of drugs, financial fraud in millions of rubles, rape, kidnapping, and murder. Criminals have become not only convenient raw material for the Kremlin\u2019s hybrid military operations, they are encouraged and motivated by state awards, which are handed over personally by Vladimir Putin. In this publication, we disclose the data and circumstances under which more than 20 mercenaries were convicted but received a second chance.<\/p>\n

According to our preliminary statistics, one out of three PMC \u201cWagner\u201d members were tried for various offenses before joining the company, so this is only a small part of the data on the criminals who serve in Putin’s private army.<\/p>\n

Attack of the “Troll Factory” on InformNapalm<\/h2>\n

The InformNapalm community announced the publication<\/a> of data on convicted \u201cWagner\u201d mercenaries on March 7. Within several days, the five most active volunteers<\/a> and the speaker of InformNapalm, who actively communicate with media, were blocked on Facebook by mass complaints about old posts.<\/p>\n

This massive attack on all the resources of our volunteer community on the eve of the publication was probably sanctioned by the influential businessman and \u201cPutin\u2019s restaurateur\u201d Evgeny Prigozhin, who sponsors not only the PMC \u201cWagner\u201d, but also the famous \u201cTroll Factory\u201d.<\/p>\n

Let us remind you that in the end of February we published data and infographics on 20 mercenaries belonging to a battery of 2S1 howitzers<\/a>\u00a0 and 25 mercenaries from the PMC \u201cWagner\u201d tank crews<\/a>. This is the third tranche of data about such criminals. Everyone picks the suitable scale of the crimes they commit: Putin stole Crimea and is robbing Donbas, and his mercenaries kidnapped people and robbed stores.<\/p>\n

The criminals in \u201cPutin\u2019s cook\u2019s\u201d personal guard<\/h2>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Valentin Aleksandrovich Kalnyn
\n<\/strong>Date of birth:\u00a0<\/span>01\/20\/1982. Position: 3rd squad leader, 2nd platoon, 3rd reconnaissance and assault company, PMC \u201cWagner\u201d. Personal number: M-0754.<\/span>While in military service, he participated in combat operations in North Caucasus. This became a mitigating factor in the sentencing<\/a>: He was sentenced to a 2-year imprisonment in a general security colony ( archive<\/a> ). He is the recipient of the \u201cOrder of Courage\u201d and has other awards, including some received at PMC \u201cWagner\u201d.\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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