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1/ One of Russia's richest women is allegedly rueing Yevgeny Prigozhin's demise: she will no longer be able to join wealthy convicts and organised crime bosses in paying a large bribe to 'enlist' with the Wagner Group, stay somewhere safe and get a pardon after six months. ⬇️ 
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that Prigozhin's death has "buried the market for buying parole from prison under the guise of criminals' participation in the war." They were kept safe in Wagner-run hospitals before returning to freedom with a pardon from Putin.
3/ According to the VChK-OGPU's sources, Prigozhin's plane crash came at a particularly bad time for Olga Mirimskaya, who was allegedly negotiating a $5 million fee to become – notionally at least – Wagner's first female mercenary.
4/ Mirimskaya is the owner of the Corporate Finance Bank (BKF) and the food conglomerate Russian Product. However, she is in serious legal jeopardy and faces 20 years in prison if she is convicted when she is sent for trial (which seems likely).
5/ In December 2022, she was charged with passing four bribes worth a total of $2 million to judges of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal in an attempt to overturn a verdict that had gone against one of her her companies. Hearings are ongoing at Moscow's Izmaylovo court.
6/ Yuri Nosov, a former investigator at the Moscow regional head office of the Investigative Committee (Russia's approximately equivalent of the FBI) has also been charged with receiving two cars from Mirimskaya.
7/ VChK-OGPU says that while Mirimskaya was still under investigation, she opened discussions with Wagner, presumably as an insurance policy if she was convicted. However, Prigozhin's death and the termination of Wagner's recruitment activity will have ended any such plans. /end
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