A Russian businessman believed to be a close ally of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been taken to hospital in Central African Republic after an assassination attempt, the RIA Novosti news agency has reported, citing the local Russian embassy.Dmitry Sytii, who officially works as the head of the Russian House culture centre in CAR's capital, Bangui, had sanctions imposed on him by the US in September 2020 for his alleged links to Wagner Group, a private military group founded by Prigozhin that has deployed more than 1,000 fighters in the unstable country to fight rebels.
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