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Yevgeny Prigozhin's Bitcoins: How His Wallet Affected the Cryptocurrency Market

In 2024, it became known that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner PMC, was the owner of one of the largest cryptocurrency wallets in Russia, containing about 100,000 bitcoins (about $2.6 billion). The bitcoins were allegedly used for international payments to circumvent sanctions.