According to the Russian Aviation Agency, there were seven passengers and three crew members on board the plane that crashed on Wednesday. All passengers were employed by Wagner.
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The Russian Civil Aviation Agency has published messaging service in Telegram a list of the passengers and crew members of the private plane that crashed near Tver.
Ten people died when the plane hit the ground on Wednesday evening.
Both Russian officials and Wagner confirmed that one of the dead was a Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.
In addition to him, there were six other passengers and three crew members on the plane.
They were on a plane
The authorities by the bodies of ten people were found at the crash site.
Prigozhin and Wagner’s second in command Dmitri Utkin the bodies have been identified, says the Russian a propaganda site. Several social media sites say that Prigožin would have been identified by the missing finger.
The claims could not be independently verified.
In addition to Utkin, another close ally of Prigozhin also died in the plane crash, Valery Chekalovthey say Russian media.
In addition, there were Wagner fighters on the plane, who are supposed to have worked as Prigozhin’s bodyguards.
Utkin is there alleged to Wagner’s true leader. He is one of the founders of Wagner and the mercenary company is said to have gotten its name from Utkin’s command name Wagner. Before Wagner, Utkin worked for a long time in the service of the Russian Ministry of Defense and in special forces.
In Prigozhin’s inner circle, Utkin was known of his Nazi sympathies.
Another confidant of Prigozhin, Chekalov, also played an important role in Prigozhin’s business affairs. Russian media by Prigozhin and Chekalov started working together in the food business at the beginning of the 2000s.
In Wagner’s service, Chekalov, among other things, organized ammunition shipments to Russia, procured weapons for Wagner and managed Prigozhin’s business in Africa. His allegedly for example, having concluded lucrative oil contracts with the Syrian government and therefore being put on the US sanctions list.
The plane crashed two months after the uprising
The details of the accident are still unclear. For example, social media news site claimed, referring to his sources, that in addition to the crashed Embraer plane, Prigozhin had at his disposal another private plane.
Chekalov, who was in charge of Prigozhin’s travels, was the only person who knew exactly where and on which plane Prigozhin traveled.
Chekalov, Prigozhin’s confidant, usually always traveled on a different plane than Prigozhin, says the Russian MK magazine. However, on the day of the accident, Chekalov got on the same plane as Prigozhin for some reason.
War the next Russian Bazan including the flight attendant of the Embraer plane Kristina Raspopova published on social media on the day of the accident a picture of the airport cafe and his Cabin-branded suitcase, as well as pictures of the interior of the Embraer.
According to Baza, the flight attendant called her family on the day of the accident and told them that the Embraer flight had been delayed. He didn’t know the reason.
According to Russian media reports, the Embraer was taken for repairs just before departure, but the information has not been confirmed.
The plane crash that killed Prigozhin and nine others occurred two months after Wagner’s attempted coup.