A citizen of Ukraine, which SBU detained in early July in Kiev, and called the curator of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND), the GRU, is a key witness in the case of the crash Malaysian Boeing MH17 in 2014 in the Donbass. This was stated in the investigative group is Bellingcat, reports “Radio Freedom”.
According to Bellingcat, the detainee’s name is Andrey Kanavin. Ten years ago he had problems with the law, now he has connections with the criminal world and the “elite in Moscow.”
“you Can call it political "reshaloy," which could find a connection between the criminal and political world,” — said the representative of the Bellingcat Hristo Grozev.
He noted that Kunavin was closely associated with the defendants in the case of MH17 Sergey Dubinsky and Leonid Kharchenko. They talked to him as a “powerful man”.
“In any case, this is a key witness to give information about something called "the chain of authorities", — said Grozev. — It needs to be a person who is aware of how decisions were made and on a personal and structural level.”
Kunavin arrested for two months. He refuses to testify, said the Ukrainian Prosecutor Alexander swab.
Previously a valuable witness in the case against Boeing has named former air defense chief of DNR Vladimir Tzemach, which the Ukrainian secret service has taken out not controlled Kiev territory in the summer of 2019. In September he was handed over to Russia as part of a large exchange.
The Boeing 777 flying flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July 2014. Killed 298 people. International investigative group called the accused Kharchenko Ukrainian and Russians Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatova, Igor Girkin (strelkov). According to investigators, they were related to the displacement of the complex “Buk”, which was shot down the airliner.
