A view shows a portrait of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at a makeshift memorial near former PMC Wagner Centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia August 25, 2023.
REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A second plane linked to Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin by some Russian media has no connection to the mercenary group and never has had, the CEO of the aircraft operator company told Reuters.
But the jet operator, Russian company Jetica LLC, denied any such link.
"Neither the plane itself nor its passengers are related to Wagner and never have been," Jetica's CEO Sergey Trifonov told Reuters.
This plane had not been rented out, Trifonov said, though he declined to say who its owner was.
Persons:
Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Anton Vaganov, Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin, Sergey Trifonov, Trifonov, Gleb Stolyarov, Gareth Jones
Organizations:
PMC Wagner, in, REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Embraer, Jetica, Thomson
Locations:
in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Moscow, Russian, Grey, St . Petersburg