While Wagner commanders and President Touadéra have justified the group's presence as a means to hunt down armed rebel groups to protect the regime, The Sentry found that Wagner has taken command and control of government armed forces.

Taking advantage of President Touadera's ever-increasing need for security and protection, Wagner has tightened its grip on the CAR's economic resources and constructed a transnational network of shadowy companies and operations stretching from Madagascar, Cameroon, and Sudan all the way back to Moscow. The training can last anywhere between one and six months and involves firearms training, hand-to-hand combat, and espionage, interrogation, and torture techniques, according to the report. One military source explained: 'We kill villagers only, we bury them, or we throw them in the bush.'Ī member of the presidential guard discussing the training he received said: 'It was a Russian instructor who gave the training … it included commando training, interrogation, aggressive techniques, torture, violence.' The report also found that part of Wagner's training involved 'sweeping' or 'cleansing' which sources in the Central African military said meant killing everyone, including women and children. In close cooperation with CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, the Wagner Group has significant control over the nation's political and military leadership, as well as huge sway over its economy. Over the past five years, soldiers and militiamen have reportedly undergone Wagner training that has involved 'ultraviolent' techniques of torture and killing, including how to cut fingers and legs, remove nails, strangle, throw fuel and burn people alive.

Washington based anti-corruption organisation The Sentry has found that Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenary group has been 'perfecting a nightmarish blueprint for state capture' in the CAR to enable it to plunder the country's national resources, particularly gold and diamonds. Warning: The story below contains references to torture techniques

Russia-Ukraine latest: 'Criminal acts' of rebels tried to split and weaken Russia, Putin says The group had been spearheading Russian attacks in parts of Ukraine before appearing to turn on the Kremlin after falling out with the Russian military over the conduct of the war. The Wagner Group is responsible for a raft of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic (CAR), according to a new investigative report.

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