Earlier, the publication Hasht e Subh, citing local sources, wrote that $1.2 million was missing from the plane that crashed in the mountains of Afghanistan.
“No, there was no money there, there was personal money,” the pilot said.
Grachev added that the surviving Russians decided to thank the local residents who helped them and gave them small money.
The investigation is considering various versions of the crash of a plane carrying Russians in Afghanistan, one of the priority being engine failure.
Earlier, the Federal Air Transport Agency said that four people who were on board the Falcon 10 plane that crashed in Afghanistan are alive. Two more people, according to preliminary data, died.