Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Tuesday it dropped the case against the Wagner Group and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.
"In the course of the investigation of a criminal case initiated by the investigative department of the FSB of the Russian Federation on June 23 under Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the fact of an armed rebellion, it was established that on June 24 its participants stopped actions directly aimed at committing a crime," the FSB stated and noted that taking that and "other circumstances relevant to the investigation" into account, it decided to scrap the case.
The move comes after reports a plane linked to Prigozhin was detected flying to Belarus, where he earlier agreed to go in exchange for the case being dropped.