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Apr 5, 2024, 10 tweets

🧵'Go and have a blast. Tear out the gold teeth from corpses, loot and bring home whatever you want'. Together with @pustota, we found out that Dmitry Karavaichik, the 'Russian Walter White,' recently visited a prison to agitate convicts to sign contracts with the Russian MoD.

In 2017, Karavaichik and his wife were sentenced to 17 and 16 years in prison, respectively, for producing and selling methamphetamine.

In 2022, Karavaichik joined the Wagner troops in Ukraine and received a pardon within six months, immediately signing a second contract after that.

Now he's touring the penal colonies to agitate among the prisoners to join the war. 'War is a chance of a lifetime. Plunder, kill, do as you please and get rich. Maybe you won't come back, but you'll have a blast to the fullest'.

Karavaichik's wife was also recently pardoned. He claims that he declined the 'Hero of Russia' title in exchange for her release from prison. severreal.org/a/rotonda-osuz…

Karavaichik himself nowadays is not just a former Wagner convict. In January he became the deputy director of the 'Leningrad Frontier' relief fund, headed by Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko. en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…

The fund, which offers support to the region's mobilized servicemen and volunteers, was established with the assistance of Ilya Traber, a close associate of Vladimir Putin and a criminal mastermind from St. Petersburg in the 1990s.

We were not able to independently verify the quotes from Karavaichik's agitation speech in the penal colony, but we have known our source to be credible for a long time. Karavaichik himself denies that he went there and agitated among convicts to join the war in Ukraine.

What is known for sure is that the 'Russian Walter White' now agitates among kids in school, telling them about his 'acts of bravery' in Ukraine. Sorry kids, no meth production recipes. vk.com/kurwak2?z=phot…

Read the full story here (Google Translate for your language please): svoboda.org/a/ubivayte-i-b…

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