EU should freeze funds Buk-maker

EU should freeze funds Buk-maker

World January 25, 2017 11:03

luxembourg - The freezing of the assets of the Russian Buk missile maker Almaz-Antey is legitimate by the EU. That the European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday.

The EU imposed in July 2014 on penalties to the state because it contributes to the destabilization of Ukraine. The Russian authorities deliver heavy weapons to the separatists in eastern Ukraine, who use the guns according to the judges, inter alia to take down planes.

Or the Buk missile in July 2014 flight MH17 shot down was shot down by the Ukrainian army and the separatists, according to the court irrelevant in Luxembourg, because that was not the decisive reasons for the freezing of the funds of the missiles producer.

The public company had filed the case to annul the freeze for 2015 and 2016. The EU's action, however, according to the judges ' not disproportionate ', partly because there are no effective alternatives were available to prevent escalation of the conflict.

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