Wagner Fanta: Russia's Defunct Mercenary Group Hopes To Make A Killing On Bottled Water
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Before his 2023 death in a suspicious plane crash, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin had built a sprawling, multinational commercial empire. Some of those ventures, big and small, remain: like bottled water in the Central African Republic.

Russia’s most infamous mercenary company, the now-defunct Wagner Group, is notorious for many things: ruthless fighting prowess, brutal war crimes, the failed mutiny by its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin -– and the plane crash that killed him two months later.