By Sophie Tanno and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — The founder of the Wagner private mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who Russian aviation authorities says was on board a plane that crashed with no survivors, was once close enough to Vladimir Putin to be called his “personal chef” before he l…
Yevgeny Prigozhin's fate has been entwined with the Kremlin for decades — as a trusted government contractor, and the head of the Wagner mercenary army that fought in Ukraine and has been blamed for doing Russia's dirty work in Syria...
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