Wagner PMC head Yevgeny Prigozhin and founder Dmitry Utkin were on the passenger list of the plane that crashed in Russia.
The Federal Air Transport Agency officially confirmed that on board the plane, which crashed on Wednesday night, August 23 in the Tver region of the Russian Federation, was the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The Federal Air Transport Agency has published a list of passengers and crew of the Embraer-135 (EBM-135BJ) aircraft.
According to the airline, the following passengers were on board:
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Sergey Propustin
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Yevgeny Makaryan
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Alexander Totmin
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Valery Chekalov
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Dmitry Utkin
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Nikolai Matuseev
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Evgeny Prigozhin
And the crew members:
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Alexey Levshin, commander;
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Rustam Karimov, co-pilot;
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Kristina Raspopova, flight attendant.
Also in the statement of the Federal Air Transport Agency it is said that the flight of the Embraer-135 aircraft “was carried out on the basis of a permit for the use of airspace issued in the prescribed manner.”
Recall that earlier the state television channel Russia 24 reported the death of the leader of the “Wagnerites” Yevgeny Prigozhin as a result of a plane crash in the Tver region of the Russian Federation.
The network showed the destruction of Prigozhin’s plane
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Source: korrespondent
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