Officials said it was not clear if he was on board the plane, which went down more than 60 miles north of Moscow.
A private jet crashed in Russia on Wednesday, killing all 10 people on board, emergency officials said.
The Kremlin said the founder of the Wagner private military company, which fought alongside Russia’s regular army in Ukraine, would be exiled to Belarus. A plane carrying three pilots and seven passengers that was en route from Moscow to St Petersburg went down more than 60 miles north of the capital, according to officials cited by Russia’s state news agency Tass.
Flight tracking data reviewed by The Associated Press showed a private jet registered to Wagner that Prigozhin had used previously took off from Moscow on Wednesday evening and its transponder signal disappeared minutes later. The colour and placement of the number on the engine of the crashed plane matches other photos of the Wagner jet examined by The AP.
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