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Vladimir Putin on Thursday hinted that mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's death in plane crash wasn't an act of sabotage — but rather the end result of drug- or alcohol-fueled play with grenades. The Russian leader offered up this wild theory while speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, six weeks after Prigozhin's plane fell from the sky, in what's widely believed to have been an assassination.
“Unfortunately, tests on traces of alcohol or drugs in the blood of those killed were not taken, although we know that after the events we all know about the FSB found not only 10 billion in cash, but also 5 kilograms of cocaine in the Saint Petersburg office ,' Putin said. Prigozhin likely signed his own death warrant when he led the Wagner Group, his private military company, on a short-lived, but tense uprising against Putin's military in late June.
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