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How 'Vladimir Putin's chef' became a billionaire

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Kristina Becker
June 29, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the paramilitary Wagner Group, has probably posed the biggest-ever challenge to Vladimir Putin's rule up until now. Who is he and how did he become so rich?

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