# Evro Polis **Evro Polis** is the Russian company through which [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]] was paid for the [[Wagner Group]]'s war in [[Syria]]: a contract with Syria's state General Petroleum Corporation promised it 25% of the oil and gas output (or profits — versions differ) from fields Wagner recaptured from ISIS. It is the Syrian prototype of the [[Security-for-Minerals]] model Wagner later ran in Africa, and the reason Wagner fighters were near the Conoco gas plant at the [[Battle of Khasham]] in February 2018. ## Record | Date | Event | |---|---| | 2016 | Preliminary agreement: Palmyra-region oil revenue in exchange for securing ISIS-held areas (per All Eyes on Wagner and The Bell) | | Dec 2017 | AP reports a 48-page contract granting Evro Polis 25% of profits from recaptured fields | | Jan 2018 | Binding agreement reportedly signed; Syria's ambassador confirms Evro Polis in that month's energy "road maps" | | 2018 | US Treasury designates Evro Polis as "linked to" Prigozhin (exact date not shown in the OFAC record) | | 2020 | Reported sales of $134 million and net profit of $90 million (Financial Times) | | Dec 13, 2021 | EU sanctions it as a company benefiting from and supporting the Assad regime, alongside Velada LLC and Mercury LLC | | Aug 2023 | Its shareholder, Wagner logistics chief Valery Chekalov, dies with Prigozhin in the [[Prigozhin Plane Crash]] | | 2023–2024 | After the [[Wagner Group Mutiny]], Deputy Defence Minister [[Yunus-Bek Yevkurov]] moves to bring the Syrian business under the ministry; a new firm, RPOST-M, opens in Damascus in January 2024 offering oil-site security | Its fate after the fall of the [[Assad Regime]] in December 2024 is not documented. It remained on the US sanctions list as of October 2026. ## See Also - [[Wagner Group]] · [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]] · [[Syria]] · [[Syrian Civil War]] · [[Battle of Khasham]] · [[Security-for-Minerals]] · [[Concord Management and Consulting]]