International Investigation Group in the MN17 Flight of the MN17 Flight in the Heaven in 2014 “has good reason to believe” that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally authorized the supply to the “DPR” of the Buk anti-aircraft missile system, from which then was then A rocket was released on the Malaysian Boeing. About this, as the Associated Press writes, representatives of the United Investigative Group at a press conference in the Hague.
stated on February 8.
However, they stated, at this stage the investigation reached its limits and suspended.
“Despite the fact that a lot of new information was discovered about various involved persons, the evidence is currently not specific to lead to new judicial persecution,” the press conference said.
As the representatives of the Netherlands prosecutor’s office added, while Vladimir Putin remains the President of the Russian Federation, he retains immunity from criminal persecution and he cannot be suspected as part of the investigation.
At a press conference in the MH17 case, they also recorded a telephone conversation of Vladimir Putin with the head of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky, held in November 2017. This conversation, according to investigators, shows how much the President of the Russian Federation was personally involved in the actions of separatists in the Donbass.
In November 2022, the court in the Hague in absentia sentenced two citizens of the Russian Federation Igor Girkin (Strelkov) and Sergey Dubinsky and citizen of Ukraine Leonid Kharchenko, accused of the crash of the MH17 flight. They were also obliged to pay compensation to the relatives of the dead in the amount of 16 million euros. The fourth person involved in the case, citizen of the Russian Federation Oleg Pulatov, was fully justified. Despite the verdict made, the international investigation continues its work in order to find new suspects in the case. Russia denies its involvement in the crash of Boeing.