A Russian businessman nicknamed “Putin’s chef” has admitted interfering in the US mid-term elections.
A Russian businessman nicknamed “Putin’s chef” has admitted interfering in the US mid-term elections.
The Kremlin was previously accused of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman behind the private military contractor Wagner, has long been rumoured to be funding a troll farm in St Petersburg responsible for spreading misinformation online.
Addressing speculation that his troll farm would interfere in this week’s mid-term elections in the US, Mr Prigozhin said in a statement published by his press office: “Let me say this in an elegant and subtle way and allow me to use a certain double meaning.
