Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in a plane crash last week was confirmed by Russian investigators based on a DNA test.
(Bloomberg) — Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in a plane crash last week was confirmed by Russian investigators based on a DNA test.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said Sunday that tests confirmed all ten passengers and crew listed as having boarded the private jet on Aug. 23 were killed, according to a statement on the committee’s website Sunday.
Prigozhin led a failed mutiny in June against Vladimir Putin’s military leaders that threatened the Russian president’s nearly quarter-century grip on power. The US has said the plane crash may have been a Kremlin-ordered assassination, prompting Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov to dismiss the suggestion as “an absolute lie.”
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