China News Service, December 20. According to a report by Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao on the 20th, Dutch prosecutors will raise this week with the four suspects who were absent from the hearing regarding the 2014 Malaysia Airlines MH17 passenger plane crashed over Ukraine. Sentencing recommendations.
This week's hearing took place at a high security court near Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, starting on the 20th and lasting for three days.
Data map: MH17 crashed passenger plane wreckage.
Dutch prosecutors will also formally file an indictment in court, prosecuting four suspects, including Russian citizens Igor Girkin and Schell, for "murder of 298 people on board the Boeing 777 aircraft." Guy Dubinsky (Sergei Dubinsky) and Oleg Pulatov (Oleg Pulatov), and Ukrainian citizen Leonid Kharchenko (Leonid Kharchenko).
All four persons accused of participating in the incident refused to attend the hearing in the Netherlands.
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines MH17 passenger plane from Amsterdam, the Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur crashed over Donetsk, Ukraine, close to the Russian border, killing all 298 people on board.
Two thirds of the victims were Dutch nationals, and the rest were citizens of 16 countries including Australia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Indonesia.
International investigators believe that when the MH17 passenger plane flew over eastern Ukraine, it was shot down by a BUK (beech) missile and alleged that "the missile was transported from a Russian military base."
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the video footage used by the International Commission of Investigation to prove that the Russian air defense forces were suspected of being involved in the Malaysia Airlines МН17 crash was forged.
The Dutch-led Malaysia Airlines MH17 air crash joint investigation team announced on June 19, 2019 that four suspects involved in the case had been criminally prosecuted. Four suspects who allegedly held important military or intelligence positions in Ukrainian civilian armed forces were charged with murder. crime.
The Dutch courts are expected to make a ruling as early as the end of 2022.
A court spokesperson told Agence France-Presse that the maximum penalty for this lawsuit is life imprisonment.
According to previous reports, Russia has repeatedly denied responsibility for the crash of flight MH17 and accused the joint investigation team of “prejudicial” against Russia.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that, given that Russia was excluded from the joint investigation mission, the Russian side deeply doubted the fairness of the investigation.
Russia submitted its own radar data to the Netherlands, as well as documents proving that the "Beech" missile installed in Ukraine shot down the Boeing airliner, but the investigators ignored it.
Although there are many loopholes in the evidence, the findings of the investigation are also quite controversial. On March 9, 2020 local time, the District Court of The Hague, the Netherlands, held a hearing on the MH17 air crash case.