deepens. the president of belarus tonight claiming yevgeny prigozhin who led the rebellion against putin has returned to russian. where s the proof? this as a raid of prigozhin s house have turned off gold bars, weapons, a collection of wigs, and a giant stuffed alligator. a special report on that. and a subpoena tonight. the office of the arizona secretary of state confirms to out front they ve been subpoenaed in the investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the election. the arizona secretary of state will be out front. and a story you ll see first here on out front, a dangerous skin rotting drug taking over the streets leaving users with open wound and amputated limpbes. it s devastating across the country and we have a special report on the epidemic this hour. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight the mystery deepening. where is yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the armed rebellion against putin? in a rare press conference today the
the belorussian president and putin ally alex lukashenko who said he d given prigozhin refuge now claims he s gone back to russia. the kremlin refused to comment, but immediately after the attempted coup vladimir putin had hinted that the finances of his former ally would be investigated. translator: i hope nobody stole anything while all this was going on or didn t steal much. but, of course, we will deal with all of this. reporter: according to the russian president himself, prigozhin s catering company had received almost $2 billion in military and government contracts. but it was prigozhin s propaganda machine that russian authorities targeted first, blocking media companies and websites linked to the man behind the failed push last week. translator: we are closing down and leaving the country s information space. reporter: yet in many ways prigozhin s empire may be too big to fail as the mercenary group still has a significance