Evgueni Prigozhin, the Russian billionaire boss of the Wagner militia, died in the accident of an Embraer Legacy 600 plane belonging to his fleet in the Tver region, during a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg.
Ten people were also on board the aircraft and there would be no survivors according to the Russian authorities.
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