Moscow (EFE).- The Russian Government today dismissed the head of the civil aviation agency (Rosaviatsia), Alexandr Neradko, whose structure confirmed on August 23 the accident of the private plane in which the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeni, was traveling. Prigozhin.
Neradko, who headed the agency since 2009, will be replaced by his deputy, Dmitri Yardov, according to the executive on his website.
According to the newspaper “Izvestia”, the official had been criticized on several occasions by the Government for ignoring its recommendations, especially those sent to him by the Minister of Transport, Vitali Saveliev.
Rosaviatsia reported on the tragedy of the plane in which Prigozhin, his main commanders and three crew members were flying.
The press then highlighted the speed and transparency with which the agency had reported on the event, for which the most radical Wagnerites, the opposition and the West blame the president, Vladimir Putin.
The investigation of the event
One day after the event, which Putin described as an “aerial catastrophe,” the Russian president alluded to the “mistakes” committed by Prigozhin, alluding to the failed armed rebellion he staged in June, and promised that the investigation would go “to the end.” ” to clarify what happened.
Regarding this investigation, the presidential spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, denied today that it has slowed down.
“We don’t see it that way. “This is a complicated investigation, a complicated event,” she said.
At the time Peskov ruled out the possibility of the participation of international institutions in the investigation of the tragedy.
According to the Russian press, the Interstate Aviation Committee, a Moscow-based entity that investigates incidents and accidents in the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States, will not investigate this event in accordance with international standards.
Both the Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents of Brazil (Cenipa) and the Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica (EMBRAER), manufacturer of the damaged aircraft, expressed their willingness to participate in the investigations.
No official information
The Embraer plane in which Prigozhin was traveling along with nine other occupants, some senior officers of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, crashed in the Tver region while en route from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.
So far no official information has been offered about the causes of the incident, but among the main versions is the explosion of a bomb on board.
Peskov categorically denied that the head of the Kremlin gave the order to liquidate the Wagner leader, whose functions would now be carried out by other private companies attached to the Ministry of Defense and by the National Guard.
