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Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane that crashed last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner paramilitary group, following a plane crash on Wednesday has been confirmed by formal genetic analysis, Russia’s Investigative Committee said Sunday.<\/p>\n
“Molecular-genetic examinations have been completed as part of the investigation into the plane crash in the Tver region,” the Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.<\/p>\n
“According to their results, the identities of all 10 victims were established, they correspond to the list stated in the flight list,” she added.<\/p>\n
Among the other nine people listed onboard the Embraer private jet was Dmitry Utkin, a shadowy figure who managed Wagner’s operations and allegedly served in Russian military intelligence.<\/p>\n
Speculation the Kremlin may have been involved in Wednesday’s crash has been rife, with the incident coming exactly two months after Wagner staged a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership.<\/p>\n
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the incident as “tragic” to reporters on Friday, calling rumours of\u00a0Yevgeny Prigozhin been killed on its orders an “absolute lie”.<\/p>\n
Russian officials opened an investigation into air traffic violations after the crash but have otherwise not disclosed details about the possible cause.<\/p>\n
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