The head of Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin has been listed to be on board an Embraer Legacy plane that crashed on Wednesday afternoon, with no survivors.
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“The Embraer plane was flying out of Sheremetyevo to St. Petersburg. There were three crew and seven passengers on board. They all died,” an Emergencies Ministry official told TASS.
RT reported that the Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviation) has since said that Yevgeny Prigozin was listed among the passengers.
Several media outlets in Russia has identified the plane as an Embraer Legacy 600, with the tail number RA-02795, which is believed to belong to Prigozhin.
There has been no official confirmation that the plane belonged to the Prigozhin, whose Wagner Private Military Company was reported to have seized Russian Military installation in Rostov and moved towards Moscow before halting the advance.
Nnamdi Maduakor is a Writer, Investor and Entrepreneur
