‘Putin’s chef’ admits interfering in US elections

Mr Prigozhin, a dozen other Russian nationals and three Russian companies were charged with operating a covert social media campaign aimed at fomenting discord and dividing American public opinion ahead of the 2016 US presidential election. Picture: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File

Yevgeny Prigozhin, an entrepreneur known as “Putin’s chef” because of his catering contracts with the Kremlin, has admitted interfering in US elections and said he will continue to do so – confirming for the first time accusations he has been rejecting for years.

“We have interfered, are interfering and will continue to interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way,” he said in remarks posted on social media by his representatives.