After getting caught up in a drug bust that spanned from Texas to Virginia, Mira Tareda is now following in the footsteps of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia’s late master of influence.
She later pled guilty to money-laundering charges in connection to the drug scheme, and spent nearly 2.5 years in prison—an experience“to the brutality of the American judicial system, the inhumanity of American prisons and the complete indifference of the so-called liberal American society.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian private security company Wagner, in an unspecified location in Africa on Aug. 21, 2023.“I saw the nightmares of the US prison hell, which are diligently hushed up by the world media: torture, bullying of prisoners, the sadism of the jailers and the cold ruthlessness of the American penitentiary system,” she said in a blog post detailing her future ambitions.
The vast operation appears to be Terada’s attempt at picking up Prigozhin’s mantle, Patrick Warren, Associate Professor in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University—who has been studying Russian disinformation—told The Daily Beast. The post was re-published on multiple Russian disinformation sites that appear to be tied to Terada’s network. One site that featured the post has links to the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate , according to the State Department. The post was also circulated on a platform that receives tasking from Russia’s Federal Security Service , according to the agency.
In one incident in November of 2016, she was found in a vehicle that had been busted for transporting cocaine, which was hidden in the engine compartment of the car. Terada and another alleged co-conspirator had traveled by car from Houston all the way to Vienna, Virginia, with the cocaine ostensibly concealed.
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