Dutch prosecutors will not attraction in MH17 case, making verdicts ultimate By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Flowers and mementos left by native residents on the crash website of Malaysia Airways Flight MH17 are pictured close to the settlement of Rozspyne within the Donetsk area July 19, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev/File Photograph

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch prosecutors mentioned on Thursday they’d not file an attraction concerning the result within the trial over the 2014 downing of Flight MH17 in japanese Ukraine, making the verdicts ultimate though the suspects stay at giant.

A Dutch court docket final month convicted three males and sentenced them to life in jail for the shooting-down of the Malaysian airliner because it flew over japanese Ukraine on its approach from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014.

All 298 individuals aboard have been killed. Victims got here from 10 totally different international locations, 196 of them from the Netherlands.

The three convicted have been former Russian intelligence brokers Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinskiy, and Leonid Kharchenko, a Ukrainian separatist chief.

The three have been all discovered to have helped to rearrange the transport into Ukraine of the Russian navy BUK missile system that was used to shoot down the aircraft, although they weren’t those that bodily pulled the set off.

The three are fugitives and believed to be in Russia. A fourth former suspect, Russian Oleg Pulatov, was acquitted on all costs.

Prosecutors mentioned on Thursday they have been happy with the “readability” the case had delivered to kin of the victims about what had occurred to MH17.