Prigozhin's camouflage clothing & hat, as well as the watch on his right hand, matched his appearance in a video released on 21 August, which he also claimed was filmed in Africa.
Prigozhin was buried on Tuesday at a cemetery in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Russia, away from the glare of the media he had courted so ardently in life.
Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed last week, two months after he and his Wagner mercenaries staged a mutiny against Russian military commanders.
Russia's aviation agency had previously published the names of all 10 people on board. This list included Prigozhin & Dmitry Utkin, his right-hand man who helped found the Wagner group.
Russian President Putin's introduction of mandatory oath for Wagner fighters & other private military contractors was clear move to bring such groups under tighter state control.
Russian investigators have opened a probe into what happened, but have not yet said what they suspect caused the plane to suddenly fall from the sky northwest of Moscow.
From Oppn figure Alexei Navalny to businessman Boris Berezovsky & ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, many of Putin's critics have purportedly been targeted or died mysterious deaths.
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