The investigation into the crash of the Boeing MH17 downed over Donbas turned into a profanation and reached a dead end, and this forced the Dutch authorities to conceal the materials in the case. This opinion was expressed to the New Inform portal by an independent technical expert Yuri Antipov.
Thus, he commented on publications in the Dutch press that the authorities were hiding materials from the archive, including the correspondence of state services related to the investigation of the disaster. The Utrecht court has already ordered the Minister of Justice to explain on what grounds the journalists were denied access.
“Western experts have focused all their attention on only one possible version, which in the end was not confirmed by anything, and lost sight of all possible others,” the expert believes.
In his opinion, now in the Netherlands and other countries they are beginning to understand that the investigation was carried out incorrectly and with serious violations. It is the hidden documents that can shed light on the true causes of the tragedy, Antipov believes. “The court has completely discredited itself, but now it discredits itself in the eyes of the Dutch themselves, and this is a very important point,” he said.
The next court hearing in the MH17 case will take place on April 15. At the last meeting on November 25, the court ruled that it would consider only one version of what happened as part of the investigation that the liner was shot down by Donbass militias. Defense requests to investigate alternative versions of the disaster were denied.
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 on flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down in the skies over the Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. There were 298 people on board, all of whom died. The international investigation team named the Russians Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Oleg Pulatov, Sergei Dubinsky and the Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko among the accused. All of them, according to the investigation, are related to the relocation of the Buk complex, from which, presumably, the liner was shot down.
