Buying Silence: How Oligarchs, Corporations and Plutocrats Use the Law to Gag Their Critics by David Hooper
Who knew what a delicate flower Yevgeny Prigozhin was? Yes, that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late leader of the Wagner Group, the sociopath who liked watching videos of people killing other people with sledgehammers when he wasn’t busy slaughtering Ukrainians or marching on the Kremlin.
Yet, there he was, in August of 2021, coming before an English court to complain that he had been grievously wounded by a writer’s tweet—a tweet that ruined his reputation, he said, by alleging he was connected to … the Wagner Group. As David Hooper recounts in his new book, Buying Silence, Prigozhin’s English lawyers assured the court that their client was no mercenary, but a businessman with “interests in the restaurant and food service industry.”
