Russian FSB announces to drop charges against Wagner: Prigozhin

Moscow, The Gulf Observer: Russia’s FSB security services has announced that it was dropping a case against fighters of the Wagner mercenary group accused of staging an armed mutiny to topple the country’s military leadership.

“The criminal case open over the armed uprising by the private military company Wagner has been closed,” the FSB said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.

Over the weekend, the Kremlin pledged not to prosecute Prigozhin and his fighters after he stopped the revolt on Saturday, even though President Vladimir Putin had branded them as traitors.

Legally, the charge of mounting an armed mutiny in Russia carries a punishment of up to 20 years in prison.