Russian investigators on Sunday confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin was among those who died in a plane crash near Moscow earlier this week.
The plane, carrying ten people, crashed in the Tver region north of the Russian capital on August 23.
Prigozhin was the leader of the Wagner private military group, which staged a mutiny against the Kremlin in late June.
Also on the plane was Dmitry Utkin, who founded the Wagner Group.
Russia’s Investigation Committee said that the results of genetic tests had confirmed the identities of all ten people who died in the crash.
“Molecular-genetic examinations have been completed as part of the investigation into the plane crash in the Tver region,” Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.
“According to their results, the identities of all 10 victims were established, they correspond to the list stated in the flight list,” she added.
Prigozhin and Utkin were both on the list of passengers issued by Russia’s civil aviation authority.
Russian aviation authorities said the aircraft was flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg before it crashed.
