Notorious street criminal, Yevgeny Prigozhin, personified Russia’s wild capitalism as the first paid subcontractor implementing Russian foreign policy. He was like the number 2 in Russia.

The problem he had, was his dream to become number 1.

What a mistake he made. It simply couldn’t happen, even in his dreams, with Putin still around.

So, who was Prigozhin? He began his "career" as a street criminal. As an eighteen-year-old, he was robbing the streets of St. Petersburg with his friends. During the harsh Soviet times under Leonid Brezhnev, he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison. During his nine years behind bars, he strengthened his network and created important connections for the future.

He was released just before the collapse of the Soviet Union and communism. On the streets of Russia he began to co-shape the wild, violent capitalism, with the ruling oligarchs, which soon became official Russian politics.

Prigozhin was untouchable on solid ground, but not in the air. In the air - that is completely different. I am amazed, the calibre of warrior he was, he did not predict that "something might happen".

He was a past and present danger to Putin, even more so since his “march" on Moscow. He made a huge mistake that cost him his life.

The owner and & "commander" of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died in a private plane crash with 7 passengers and 3 pilots on board. Among them were some of his closest associates including Dmitry Utkin, who co-founded Wagner - the notorious private security company, with Prigozhin. Utkin allegedly made the ‘foreign policy’ service agreement with Vladimir Putin.

And so, the disloyal murderous mercenaries are beheaded. The question is whether their body will survive. In this chaotic world, the future of violence and security now belongs to private companies, which in many places in the world are more powerful than the state armies and police.

Just two days before he died, Prigozhin posted a video on Telegram Messenger (supposedly filmed somewhere in Africa) in which he announced that his mercenary paramilitary would continue to spread across Africa and do – a lot. Two weeks earlier, he had appeared at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, where he was consolidating his bloody, Kremlin-linked dealings with a number of African countries.

But it wasn't just business. The Wagner Group's role in Libya, the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sudan and, finally, Niger was far from just a business one. Prigozhin with his international band of mercenaries - as previously in Syria and for many years in Ukraine - was the first subcontractor of Russian foreign policy.

On the ground, he did the Kremlin’s bidding. He did the dirtiest jobs. He was destroying everything in front of him.

But, in his effort to be the number 1, he provoked Grandpa out of his bunker and unluckily “he stepped on a mine called Putin”.

Although the investigative committee confirmed the death of Prigozhin today, the circumstances of the plane crash are still not entirely clear. Yesterday, Russian investigators found the black boxes and all ten bodies. The authorities have rejected rumours that they had ordered the execution of Prigozhin and the Wagner board.