Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement Sunday that his identity was confirmed through forensic testing - despite some lingering doubts over the official narrative
officials have said that genetic testing has confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday.
There has been little independent verification of his death, however, with some within Wagner and in the West questioning whether Prigozhin, known to take numerous security precautions and have others fly under his name, had really been onboard. “As part of the investigation of the plane crash in the Tver region, molecular-genetic examinations have been completed,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement on its site on the Telegram messaging app.
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