There are two separate investigations, one by the Dutch Safety Board and the criminal investigation led by Fred Westerbeke, Dutch prosecutor. The latter has made the secret deal with the Ukraine government which offers censorship by Kiev. The wreckage is now located at an AFB in Gilze-Rijen, at least most of the wreckage, not all of it!!
Fred Westerbeke: “Other scenarios.” | Article in De Telegraaf |
Westerbeke also deals with complaints that there is no answer about the facts yet. “Many media reports pointing in one direction: MH17 flight was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile. We explore that, but can not close our eyes to other scenarios.”
According to Westerbeke metal particles were found in the remains of some victims. Those particles “do not appear to correspond to material of the aircraft. They would thus have come from a projectile which the MH17 is affected. The research that has been necessary in order to obtain greater clarity, it is complicated and time-consuming. “
The chief wrote that it is not easy to find those responsible and that the investigation probably will take all of next year.
MH17 might have been shot down from air – chief Dutch investigator | RT | Oct. 27, 2014 |
The chief investigator with the Dutch National Prosecutors’ Office Fred Westerbeke said in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel published on Monday that his team is open to the theory that another plane shot down the Malaysian airliner.
The Dutch government is being pushed by the UNSC and Dutch parliament to advance the investigation and bring forward a status or accountability report. This has resulted to a letter to the UN Security Council [pdf] and a long reply in a letter to the Dutch parliament (Tweede Kamer) [doc].
A list of all relevant documents from the Dutch government can be found here.
Only recent news is from interview Ms Nuland at the AEI, see video of het presentation and Q&A last 5 minutes … After a very long delay, the US has provided the satellite images of the event. I’m not sure for which investigation and auspices.
US Submits Classified Information on MH17 to Investigators: State Dep’t
The Assistant Secretary of US Department of State’s European and Eurasian Affairs stated that the US had given all the information on MH17 crash to Dutch investigators and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
WASHINGTON, December 17 (Sputnik) – The United States has provided all information on MH17 crash to Dutch investigators and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Assistant Secretary of US Department of State’s European and Eurasian Affairs said Wednesday.
“We have given all of our information, including our classified information to the Dutch who are the investigators and to ICAO… So any efforts to say that we have not are also untrue,” Victoria Nuland said at the American Enterprise Institute.
AEI Russian Expert Leon Aron Tabbed for BBG Seat
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MH17 investigation – why is [was?] Malaysia excluded?
More below the fold …
MH17 investigation – why is [was?] Malaysia excluded?
Unlike the DSB, an independent organization, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, which “started the coordination of international cooperation” is a governmental agency. The Eurojust press release states that the investigation, initiated by the Dutch, will take place in Ukraine. Is it being conducted under Ukrainian or Dutch national law? Remember, according to General Legal Basis for JITs, the “team will be led by a person from the State in which the JIT operates” and even though “the members of the team may originate from various jurisdictions they are to carry out their duties in accordance with the national law of the territory where the investigation is taking place.”
What the press release above does not mention is that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office was one of those who initiated the formation of an international investigative group, according to an article by Interfax.
Does it mean that, since the JIT investigation is taking place in Ukraine, it is ruled by Ukrainian law and that Ukraine, one of the suspects, is leading the investigation? If so, this JIT investigation has no credibility whatsoever and is absolutely not independent. It is a parody of justice.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema said:
“It is our priority or even our duty to the international community to hold a detailed inquiry into this tragedy and restore justice…” (Ukrainian Prosecutor General: Intl probe into MH17 flight crash to go on, Interfax, October 29, 2014).
The Interfax article stated further:
The Prosecutor General’s Office recalled that an agreement setting up the joint investigative group of the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Ukraine, Malaysia and Eurojust was signed on August 7, 2014. That JIT agreement, initiated at The Hague on July 28, 2014, includes a non-disclosure agreement between all the countries except Malaysia, which was only granted a participant status:
In the framework of the 4-country agreement signed on 8 August between Ukraine, the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia, information on the progress and results of the investigation of the disaster will remain classified.
This was confirmed at a briefing in Kiev under the auspices of the office of the Prosecutor General Yuri Boychenko. In his words, the results of the investigation will be published once completed only if a consensus agreement of all parties that have signed the agreement prevails. Any one of the signatories has the right to veto the publication of the results of the investigation without explanation.
Malaysia Becomes Angry About Exclusion from MH17 Investigation | Wash. Blog | Nov. 30, 2014 |
Now nearly five months after the Malaysian Airlines MH17 passenger plane got shot down in Ukraine (killing all 298 onboard), Malaysians are going public with their anger about having been excluded from the investigation-team that is to write the official report on the disaster (or possibly mass-murder).
The Malaysian Insider headlined November 26th, “Why is Malaysia not part of MH17 investigation, asks group“; and, two days later, Ulson Gunnar at New Eastern Outlook and Global Research bannered, “MH17: Malaysia’s Barring from Investigation Reeks of Cover-up.”
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○ Ukrainian veto, was made public on August 12th, in an obscure announcement
○ Why Do We Allow Ukraine’s Government to Write the Official Report on The Downing of MH17?
