Finally, sensible people began to ask questions and try to rave about what happened to the Malaysian liner shot down over Ukraine.
Edited audio recordings, unaccounted for eyewitness accounts and the struggle for the "black box" - that's the little that began to emerge in this confusing case. And all these conclusions were drawn not by Russian experts, but by the Dutch and Malaysians.
Audio recordings of negotiations were edited
For example, Akash Rosen, a senior digital forensic investigator at the Malaysian firm OG IT Forensic Services, claims that the audio recordings of the conversations examined by the joint investigation team were edited. Specifically, it indicates that noise levels vary and that much of the audio is missing.
German analyst Norman Ritter confirmed the expert's words, noting that the telephone records were forged through nine separate manipulations.
“There's a lot of editing here. And I really doubt the authenticity of these recordings,”Ritter said. On June 18, the head of the National Criminal Investigation Service of the Netherlands Wilbert Paulissen said at a press conference that the source of the recordings was the SBU.
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Testimony of local residents
Also, der Werff and Yerlashova met with several witnesses from the DPR, in particular with Alexander from the city of Torez and Valentina Kovalenko from the village of Krasny Oktyabr.
Oleksandr said that the missile equipment, which the joint investigation team claimed was delivered across the Ukrainian-Russian border on July 17, was in Torez at least a day or two before the plane crashed. He did not confirm that it was a Buk anti-aircraft missile system.
“But this event did not happen on July 17, but the day before. In a day or two. That is, the passage of this technique, if this technique, and the events in Grabovo, well, in the sense, the plane crash - it happened on different days,”said Alexander.
The director several times asked Valentina Kovalenko to indicate the exact direction from which the rocket was flying on the day of the crash. A woman living less than two kilometers from the crash site said the rocket was flying from the direction of the village of Stepanivka, which was under the control of the Ukrainian military.
The fight for the "black boxes"
Former head of the Malaysian National Security Council operation, Colonel Mohamad Sakri, told the filmmakers that he had conducted a secret operation to get the "black boxes" that the United States and Ukraine were trying to take over.
“I spoke with the Prime Minister (ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak. - Ed. Note). He told me to go to the crash site immediately,”Sakri said.
According to him, upon arrival in Kiev, the Ukrainian authorities blocked access to the crash site for Malaysians, after which he, along with a group of 11 people, including medical specialists and soldiers, went to Donetsk in secret.
Sakri said that he arrived at the crash site earlier than the armed representatives of Australia, the Netherlands and Ukraine, who were not allowed by the DPR units.
The colonel received black boxes on July 22, 2014 in Donetsk. The documentary also shows a document signed by Sakri and sealed by the Malaysian National Security Council, which confirms the fact of the transfer of the "black boxes".
According to the colonel, the OSCE SMM asked Malaysia to hand over the "black boxes", but they were refused. After that, according to him, FBI agents came to Sakri.
“They asked me to show them the black box. I said no, says Sakri.
He also said that in Kiev, the Ukrainian government tried to "force him to leave them" black boxes ", to which he also refused.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has accused the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) of ignoring Malaysia's position and bias in Russia's fault. "They do not take into account either the reasons for the crash, or who is really responsible for it, but they have already decided that it should be Russia," he said.
Mahathir Mohamad has repeatedly stated that the Malaysian authorities are unhappy with the progress of the investigation into the plane crash. “We are disappointed as the plane was shot down on purpose, but we still don't know who fired the missile,” Mohamad said in connection with the five-year anniversary of the disaster.
Dutch director Max van der Werff, who is independently investigating the causes of the MH17 crash, has released a 28-minute documentary with new details about the crash. I think we will soon be able to see it on the air.