Prigozhin’s plane crash. New information

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that “fragments of hand grenades” had been found in the bodies of the victims of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane crash.

During his speech at the Valdai Club, Putin said that the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, presented him with the first results of the investigation into the crash of the plane of the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

According to the Russian leader, the report completely rules out the theory that the plane was shot down. – There has been no external attack, this is already an established fact – Putin said, questioning the assumptions of US intelligence, which concluded shortly after the crash that the plane had been shot down.

Putin suggests the Wagnerites blew themselves up

The Russian president also said that “fragments of hand grenades” had been found in the bodies of the disaster victims. He gave no details on how the grenade or grenades on board might have detonated. At the same time, he stated that, in his opinion, the investigators had been wrong in not conducting tests on the alcohol and drug levels in the bodies of the disaster victims.

– In my opinion, such an investigation should have been carried out, but it did not happen – Putin emphasized, adding that during a search of Wagner’s offices in St. Petersburg, Russian security agents recovered 10 billion rubles ($100 million) in cash and 5 kg of cocaine.

Prigozhin died in a plane crash

On August 23, an Embraer Legacy 600 plane from Moscow to St. Petersburg, owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s company, crashed in Tver Oblast. On board the machine were the founder of the Wagner Group, his deputy and head of security Valery Chekalov, as well as the commander of the formation Dmitry Utkin and several mercenaries. All passengers and three crew members (10 people in total) were killed.

On August 27, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation completed DNA testing of the disaster victims. A commission spokesman said all bodies, including Prigozhin’s, had been identified.

The causes of the crash are still being explained by Russian investigators, but in the West there are mainly two hypotheses: the downing of the plane by the S-300 anti-aircraft system and the explosion of a bomb on board.

In his first public comments on the disaster, Putin expressed his condolences to all the families of the victims. He called Prigozhin a “man with a difficult fate” who made serious mistakes in his life but was a “talented businessman.”

Prigozhin was buried peacefully in a cemetery in St. Petersburg on August 29.

Source: Do Rzeczy

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