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Russia’s Investigation Committee stated on Sunday the outcomes of genetic assessments had confirmed the identities of the ten individuals who died in a aircraft crash final Wednesday and that they included the founding father of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Russia’s aviation company had beforehand revealed the names of these on board the non-public jet which crashed within the Tver area northwest of Moscow. They included Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, his right-hand man who helped discovered the Wagner group.
“As part of the investigation of the plane crash in the Tver region, molecular-genetic examinations have been completed,” Russia’s Investigative Committee stated in a press release on its web site on the Telegram messaging app.
“According to their results, the identities of all 10 dead were established. They correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet,” it stated.
The non-public jet crashed two months to the day after Prigozhin led an abortive mutiny in opposition to Russia’s military prime brass.
President Vladimir Putin described that mutiny as a treacherous “stab in the back”, however later met with Prigozhin within the Kremlin. He despatched his condolences on Thursday to the households of these the aviation company stated had died within the crash.
