Prigozhin, the former MI6 spy: “Bomb in a box of wine.” who betrayed him

A bomb on board. This is the most accredited hypothesis – at least among Russian investigators – about the cause of the crash of the plane carrying Wagner’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to the Telegram channel ‘Shot’, which cites some informed Russian sources, the investigators think of a bomb placed in the landing gear compartment. Its explosion would have torn off the wing of the aircraft and caused an explosive depressurization causing the immediate death of the passengers on board. That would be precisely the reason why the plane’s tail was found five kilometers from the fuselage.

According to this theory, it was Artem Stepanov, his personal pilot and former shareholder of MNT-Aero, the airline that owned the plane that crashed yesterday in the Tver region, who betrayed Prigozhin. Stepanov would be wanted by the police, writes another Telegram channel generally well informed about events related to security agencies, VChK OGPU, and would have fled to Kamchatka before the plane tragedy. He has been “disconnected” for three days now. The other two owners of MNT-Aero, Olga Gubareva and Kirill Shcherbakov, are also not accessible.

Even more suggestive and in its own “symbolic” way is the hypothesis of former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. former head of the Russian office of MI6, London’s secret services, between 2006 and 2009. For the former 007 it may have been “a bomb in a box of wine” received as a gift from passengers that brought down the plane in which the leader the Wagner group is believed to travel. Steele, speaking to British broadcaster Sky News, commented that “it’s an ironic end for Putin’s former cook”, he said in reference to the nickname of Prigozhin, who began his rise to power from the restaurant business.