Moscow:
The CEO of the aircraft operator company told that the second plane linked by some Russian media to the head of the Wagner mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has no connection with the mercenary group and never was. reuters,
Russia’s aviation authority said Prigozhin was aboard a private Embraer jet that crashed northwest of Moscow on Wednesday evening with no survivors. The investigation has not yet definitively identified the 10 people on board but Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to their families.
Russian media, mainly associated with the Wagner Group’s Telegram channel Gray Zone, linked a second business jet with the tail number RA-02748 to the mercenary group, and reported that it was also in the air at the time of the crash. Was.
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But the jet operator, Russian company Jetika LLC, has denied any such link.
“Neither the plane nor its passengers have and have never had any relation to Wagner,” said Sergei Trifonov, CEO of Jetika. reuters,
The plane was not chartered, Trifonov said, though he declined to say who owned it.
Flight tracking data shows RA-02748 was on a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg on Wednesday evening when the plane believed to be carrying Prigozhin crashed. It then took off back to Moscow about 20 minutes later.
