BRUSSELS – The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) is checking information regarding two suspects in the case over the crash of the Malaysian Boeing in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, the Dutch police said.
They are Andrey Ivanovich and Nikolai Fyodorovich, whose noms de guerre respectively are Orion and Dolphin, the police said on its website.
The JIT has several recordings of telephone conversations involving these individuals, the police said.
Meanwhile, the JIT said there is no evidence of a direct link between these telephone conversations and the airliner’s crash.
According to the JIT, the Boeing 777 airliner operated by Malaysia Airlines was downed by a 9M38 missile of a Buk anti-aircraft missile complex, launched from the Pervomaisk district in Donbas, six kilometers south of the populated area Snizhne which was controlled by Donbas militants at the time. The investigators noted that the missile complex had been brought into the east of Ukraine from Russia and later sent back to Russia.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) when it was shot down in the airspace over the Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board were killed.
