Arrest in Ukraine after MH17 assassination principal researcher

Forensic expert Oleksandr Roevin was hit by three bullets late last year, but survived the attack. This year there would have been an attempt to murder him.

The attacks were claimed military chief prosecutor Anatoly matios the work of criminals from the Crimea and Donbas, much of which is held by the pro-Russian rebels. According matios has shown tapped phone calls that the order came for the attacks 'from abroad'. But he would not say which country he meant.

What is certain is that the perpetrators, according to him it had provided was shot because of his role in the investigation into the sinking of the Malaysian unit, in July 2014 over eastern Ukraine on Roevin. , Killing all 298 passengers died.

Roevin was shot in November last year when he left his home in a suburb of Kiev. He was seriously wounded, but later returned to his post as director of a leading forensic research institute in Kiev. According matios would have tried to overcome Roevin shy away from the perpetrator again recently. Thereby Roevins car was shot. But this attempt failed because Roevin was not in the car.

After arrest of the suspect, the police found several firearms, grenades and cartridges of Russian origin to. According matios was doing around the deliverers of the assassin to delay the MH17 research. An international research team is still conducting a criminal investigation into the sinking of the device.

Damning report
Roevin was also involved in the biochemical analysis of the remains of the BUK missile with which the aircraft supposedly downed. He would come to the Netherlands in November last year to report on its findings.

Roevin but was also involved in a number of other sensitive investigations, including an examination of the heavy losses suffered Ukrainian army in the summer of 2014 at the Battle of the place Ilovajsk. In addition, hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers were killed. Roevin wrote a report in which he killed a damning verdict on the blunders of the army command. Especially the general who was in charge of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) as the Ukrainian authorities, the military campaign in the east of the country name, the prize was in the report.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/  By: Bert Lanting Photo: Reuters