For a mercenary outfit that doesn't officially exist, the Wagner Group generates plenty of headlines.

They are involved in very grave human rights abuses and they are conducting what could be described as war crimes.

In recent weeks, the Kremlin-linked private military company has been reportedly unleashed on Ukraine

to hunt down and kill the president, Vladimir Zelensky. But rather than Eclipse Wagner's activities

elsewhere, the Ukraine's story is focusing attention on the outfit's history of violence across the globe.

Wagner Group is not only mercenaries, it's also troll farms.

It's also disinformation tools.

It's a complex tool with media, with money and with men.

I'm David Reid.

Today on Business Daily, Putin's goons in Africa, the crimes they're

accused of committing, the governments, they're keeping in power and the business deals,

making it all possible.

The opening scene of Tourist, an action thriller with a body count in the upper hundreds.

To say it glorifies violence is an understatement.

There is not a difficulty in the film that can't be resolved with a high-velocity bullet or grenade.

If you're familiar with the genre, it's because Hollywood's been pumping out armed, angry and abroad movies for years.

But this one's different.

It's not the USA this time, but Russians wading in to fix someone else's mess.

Spoiler alert, Anuadeoé, an Africa expert at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, says the Russians win.

It tells the story of this gunslinging Russian mercenaries who essentially helped a precedent on the eve of an election as people try to steal his mandate from him.

The movie premiered in March last year to a packed stadium in Bongi, capital of the Central

African Republic. It's no coincidence that Wagner is also operating in the country.

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