Prigozhin’s journey from prisoner and hot dog vendor to armed rebellion leader

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company (AP)

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was believed to have been killed in a plane crash north of Moscow on Wednesday, made his name as the mercenary boss who mounted an armed rebellion against Russian President Vladimir Putin in June.

Russia’s civil aviation agency said Mr Prigozhin, 62, and Dmitry Utkin, his right-hand man in the Wagner mercenary group, were among 10 people who died when the flight from Moscow to St Petersburg crashed.