Journalists from the Dutch public broadcaster NOS have published what appear to be intercepted calls involving all of the defendants in the trial now underway in the Netherlands in connection with the downing of Malaysian airliner MH17 over occupied Donbas. The conversations are said to have been intercepted by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and passed to the Dutch Prosecutor. While unclear how journalists from the News Hour program gained access to the tapes, the conversations certainly seem to explain why the Joint Investigation Team decided to first bring charges, albeit in absentia, against these four men, three of whom are former Russian military or FSB officers. The tapes also show the degree to which they and others were controlled by Moscow.
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Judges and lawyers attend the third session of the sampling process surrounding the downing of flight MH17 at the Schiphol Judicial Complex, in Badhoevedorp, on June 8, 2020.
