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In June 2016, the Investigative Committee while executing yet another legal assistance request from the Dutch Openbaar Ministerie, filed with all competent agencies of Russia, including AO Concern Almaz-Antey, a joint stock company, a request to provide some materials that as the Dutch side of the investigation believes, might have helped the investigation into the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 on 17 July 2014. Among other things, the Dutch had requested unprocessed initial radar images of the Ukrainian airspace above Luhansk and Donetsk regions made in the period of time when the had Boeing crashed.

Concern Almaz-Antey managed to get necessary information from head computers of the Rostov motorway radar provided by one of its plants, the Lianozovo Electromechanical Plant. The Investigative Committee has received this information and will soon give it to Dutch investigators.

The RF Investigative Committee has been cooperating with the international investigation since November 2014 and has responded to a number of legal assistance requests of the Openbaar Ministerie by providing Dutch investigators with a lot of information and data.

The Investigative Committee has confirmed once more its complete willingness to cooperate with the Netherlands most efficiently to solve the tragedy.

Head of Media Relations                                                                                                                              V.I. Markin