Wagner Chief Prigozhin Was on board Crashed Private Jet

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An Embraer Legacy business jet with three crew members and seven passengers on board crashed in Russia’s Tver Region while en route to St. Petersburg from Moscow earlier on Wednesday.

PMC Wagner boss and businessman Evgeny Prigozhin was aboard the aircraft that crashed Wednesday near a village about 300 kilometers away from Moscow, according to the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency.

Prigozhin is considered a notable Russian businessman who is primarily known abroad as the founder of Wagner Group, a private military company.

According to information released by the government agency, the plane was carrying the following passengers: Prigozhin, Evgeny Markaryan, Aleksandr Totmin, Valery Chekalov, Sergey Propustin, Nikolay Matuseev and Dmitry Utkin, who served as a Wagner deputy and co-founder, in addition to the plane’s three crew members.

Source: TASS

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