The British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has announced on Friday that Wagner Group has now been officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK.
It is now illegal for anyone in the UK to make any support for the Wagner mercenary group or to be part of the outfit, which comes weeks after Yevgeny Prigozhin was allegedly killed in a plane crash in Russia.
If a person in the UK does support the group or are a member can be jailed for up to 14-years in prison.
Last week Braverman said that Wagner are “violent and destructive organisation which has acted as a military tool of Vladimir Putin’s Russia overseas.”
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In a statement, the Home Office stated: “The Russian mercenary organisation, Wagner Group, has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation today (15 September) after an order was laid in Parliament on Wednesday (6 September).
“This order comes into force with immediate effect and will make belonging to the Wagner Group or actively supporting the group in the UK a criminal offence, with a potential jail sentence of 14 years which can be handed down alongside or in place of a fine.
“The Wagner Group has now been added to the list of proscribed organisations in the UK, alongside 78 other organisations.”
Braverman added, “Wagner‘s continuing destabilising activities only continue to serve the Kremlin‘s political goals.
“They are terrorists, plain and simple – and this proscription order makes that clear in UK law.”
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