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Yevgeny Prigozhin is an entrepreneur and is not only known as “Putin’s cook”. He is considered a friend of Putin. Now he claims to have transferred money for the treatment of Alexei Navalny. La Charité reacts.
Yevgeny Prigozhin said that he had transferred one million rubles to the Charité for the treatment of Alexei Navalny. She is one of 13 people accused by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller of meddling in the US presidential election. He is also associated with Russian mercenaries in Syria. He’s on a United States sanctions list.
Did this man of all people donate more than 10,000 euros to the famous Berlin clinic for the treatment of Putin’s intimate enemy?
No, the Charité immediately denies it. There was no receipt of money.
The clinic does not want to respond to the first t-online request: Has the clinic received the money? What do you intend to do with it? “Assumptions and speculations” are not discussed, they say.
But Prigozhin’s company announced in a press release that the money was transferred on September 7. The Russian news agency Tass reported the transaction immediately.
Money for treatment is an investment
Navalny is still in an artificial coma at the moment. He was poisoned with the neurotoxin Novichok. The agent of war comes from Soviet military actions. That at least does not make the participation of the Russian state seem absurd.
Alexej Nawalny (Source: ITAR-TASS / imago images)
Prigozhin, who not only cooks for the Kremlin, but also orchestrates useful missions, appears as a sponsor of the Kremlin critic’s treatment. Bluntly, he describes the alleged payment as an investment: Navalny owes him money. Which means that if Navalny returns alive to Russia, he will be in debt.
This claim by Prigozhin is apparently correct: Navalny and his anti-corruption organization FKB lost a lawsuit against a company controlled by Prigozhin at the time. The lawsuit concerned inferior school meals: Prigozhin’s catering company is said to have caused large amounts of diarrhea through its school and kindergarten meals. His companies not only dine for Putin’s guests, but also have multi-million dollar supply contracts with the state.
Although his company had to pay compensation to the affected families, Nawalnys FKB and the employees of his organization were supposed to pay a much higher sum due to damage to their reputation. He dissolved his anti-corruption organization after the lost trial.
Millions are on Prigozhin’s account
The question remains the money for Navalny’s treatment. When asked by t-online, Prigozhin’s company “Konkord” replied on Wednesday: The money came back that day. La Charité did not answer any questions.
Berliner Charité (Source: ITAR-TASS / imago images)
However, the company wants to prove that the money was paid and posted the t-online request and screenshots on its page on the Russian VK network, which are supposed to document the transfer.
A little later, the Charité contacted t-online in response to the request: “We checked it internally. We did not receive any corresponding payment.”
This means that the payment has been blocked on the way to Charité. Or there are statements against statements. On the one hand, the man who is seen as the key figure behind an army of trolls and the false reports about Russian interference in the US presidential elections and is on a US sanctions list, on the other hand, a of the most recognized clinics in the world.
Individuals pay for treatment
Prigozhin’s company uses the sanctions list to explain why the money was returned. Another reason is that the Charité should have given the donor information about the poisoning and the treatment, which it withheld from the public. A bold expectation: There is no right, as a treatment payer, to know the patient’s private information.
There is also no right to receive information about who is paying for Nawalny’s treatment. It is not the German taxpayer, as the Berlin Senate announced on Wednesday in response to a request from an AfD deputy: “There is a commitment to cover the costs of individuals.”
According to the Senate, the clinic cannot yet specify how high the cost of treating the Russian opposition activist after the attack with the neurotoxin Novichok is: “Due to the specific circumstances of the case and the associated diagnostic and therapeutic characteristics, the Charité sees herself in the present Not being able to make reliable statements about incurred or expected treatment costs. ”
A million rubles, a good 10,000 euros, would hardly be enough.
