MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia still has all radar data stored on the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, and is ready to provide it again to the relevant institutions if needed, the deputy head of Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency said Tuesday.
"Russia has stored all that data to this day, and is willing to provide it once again to the relevant authorities," Oleg Storchevoy wrote in a letter on the MH17 investigation, published by RT.
The criminal investigation of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine is taking too long and might fail to uncover the truth, Oleg Storchevoy noted.
"The Dutch Safety Board should explain to you and to the whole world why the technical investigation took such a long time and why it resulted in some very abstract and vague statements <…> Unfortunately, we observe now a very similar situation with the Joint Investigation Team in charge of the criminal investigation," Oleg Storchevoy stressed in the letter.
According to Storchevoy, the process is again taking too long and Dutch authorities are "very biased" in who they choose to cooperate with on the matter.
"All this invites many unpleasant questions and gives us reasons to worry that the criminal investigation may repeat the fate of the technical one and fail to establish the truth," he wrote.
