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Cafe where St. Petersburg blast occurred linked to Wagner boss

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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said Monday that he "gave" the St. Petersburg cafe, where an explosion killed Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky on Sunday, to the Cyber Front Z group, which hosted an event at the cafe. 

When asked to confirm whether he was the owner of the cafe, Prigozhin didn't deny it, in comments published Monday by his holding company Concord on its VK social media page. 

“Indeed, I gave the cafe to the patriotic movement Cyber Front Z, and they held various seminars there," Prigozhin said.

Russia's independent news outlet Fontanka is reporting that the cafe belongs to Prigozhin, on the basis of the Concord company's ownership mentioned on the cafe's receipt. 

Prigozhin is the founder and sole owner of Concord, according to public records.

CNN has not been able to independently verify Prigozhin's claims and whether he is the legal owner of the cafe.

In the same post, Prigozhin is also commenting on who may be behind the blast. 

"I do not know the details of the incident now, I was only informed that, unfortunately, Vladlen Tatarsky died. I don't know about the rest of the details," Prigozhin said.

"Most likely, this tragedy happened at the seminar. As for the death of Darya Dugina, yes, everything is similar," he said referencing the death of the daughter of ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, who was killed by a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow last year. 

"But I would not blame the Kyiv regime for these actions. I think that there is a group of radicals that is hardly related to the government. That's what I would call it," Prigozhin said.