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The judge of the District Court of The Hague, who criticized the prosecution's conclusions in the MH17 crash case in 2014, was forced to resign, the Neues aus Russland telegram channel reports, citing the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation.
Earlier, she stated that the Dutch Security Council and the prosecutor's office were engaged in "deliberate cover-up." And some of the charges, in her opinion, are "manipulation and lies."
In addition, the judge's brother wrote a book in which he argued that the Malaysian Boeing was not shot down by a Russian missile. The woman handed out the copies of the book to the judges and prosecutors who were in charge of the case. For this, the Supreme Court issued a written reprimand to her, ruling that her actions undermined the credibility of the authority of the judiciary. As a result, the judge resigned.
The MH17 plane carrying out flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed near Donetsk on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board died. Russian experts initially offered to work together, but were removed from the investigation. Meanwhile, Moscow is ready to recognize the results of the investigation only if it takes a full part in it.
The court found guilty of the death of almost 300 people Russian citizens Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky. The same verdict was passed against the Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. They were sentenced to life imprisonment. Another Russian, Oleg Pulatov, was found not guilty.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has no doubt that this verdict, like the entire course of the trial, is explained by a political order. All this was done in order to make Russia responsible for the tragedy that occurred in 2014.
Russkiy Mir
