Monday, July 21, 2014

'Tapped calls prove rebels plotted to hide black box'



Ukrainian intelligence services have released another set of intercepted phone conversations, claiming it to be rebel leaders plotting to hide MH17's black box.

The two-minute tape was released by the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) yesterday, and purportedly comprised three phone conversations between rebel leader Khodakovskyi Oleksandr Serhiyovych and two separatist rescue workers identified only as Oleksiy and Andriy.

"I have a request for you,” Khodakovskyi supposedly told Andriy in the second phone call at 6.10pm (11.10pm Malaysian time).

"Our friends from high above are very much interested in the fate of the black boxes. I mean people from Moscow. There are two items – Khmuryi, Strelok’s head of intelligence, has one.

"Please, cooperate with the Ministry of Emergency. All that you find must not come into somebody else’s hands," he continued.

Khodakovskyi is the Vostok Battalion commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The conversations reportedly took place on the evening of July 18 – a day after MH17 was shot down.

However, the authenticity of the recordings could not be independently verified at this point.

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