The Russian president made no mention of the mercenary chief s death in his address to world leaders at this week s BRICS summit today as speculation mounts over the plane crash
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is reported to have died in a plane crash aged 62, was a former hot-dog seller and ex-convict who went on to become a billionaire restaurateur and “global Kremlin action man” running the so-called Wagner Group, a shadowy army of mercenaries, on behalf of the Russian president Vladimir Putin.