State Department offers $10M reward for information on how Russian internet trolls interfere in US elections
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Biden's State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on a "troll factory" known as Internet Research Agency and its backer Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin.
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Viktorovich Prigozhin, an infamous Russian oligarch sometimes referred to as Russian President Vladmir Putin’s "chef," has been targeted by both the United States and the European Union with sanctions since at least March in response to the war in Ukraine. However, he had already been on the FBI’s Most Wanted List since at least February 2018 when a federal arrest warrant was issued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after he was charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
The new reward of up to $10 million, offered through the State Department’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, administered by the Diplomatic Security Service, seeks information leading to the "identification or location of any foreign person, including a foreign entity, who knowingly engaged or is engaging in interference in U.S. elections, as well as information leading to the prevention, frustration, or favorable resolution of an act of foreign election interference," the statement released on Thursday said.