From hot dog salesman to mercenary chief, this is what we know about Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Now, he is reportedly set to move to Belarus under a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to end the short-lived rebellion.
After serving a long prison sentence in the 1980s, Mr Prigozhin started out selling hotdogs in his hometown. From there, the catering firm Concord began to win government supply contracts, taking its operations to a much bigger levelMr Prigozhin admitted last September that he had founded the private military group in 2014, the year Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine.
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