Police arrest suspect for attempted assassination of chief forensic scientist working on MH17 air disaster

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Forensic expert Oleksandr Ruvin was shot in the leg but survived attack
He had been investigating the downing of MH17 over Ukraine in 2014
A suspect has been arrested by police investigating the shooting

Published: 08:08 EST, 11 April 2016 | Updated: 09:29 EST, 11 April 2016

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A suspect has been arrested by police investigating the attempted assassination of a forensics expert who is leading the MH17 investigation.

Officers believe Oleksandr Ruvin was deliberately shot for his work on the Malaysia Airlines disaster. He was hit in the leg but survived.

A total of 298 people died after the plane, which was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Officers believe Oleksandr Ruvin was deliberately shot for his work on the Malaysia Airlines disaster. He was hit in the leg but survived

Crash: 298 people died when MH17 was brought down over Ukraine in July 2014

A joint team investigating the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine in 2014 have been in Malaysia discussing options with authorities to set up a tribunal to hold those responsible to account.

Malaysia, the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium and Ukraine have been exploring alternative options, including trials in international and national courts, after Russia vetoed a United Nations bid last July to form a tribunal.

'The attorney-general in Malaysia and legal authorities in other countries are trying to find the best way to take this to court,' transport minister Liow Tiong Lai told reporters.

Liow later told Reuters that the team had still not identified who to charge or what those charges might be.

'We are operating on an assumption that there is a perpetrator that can be charged but by the time they are identified, we need to have a suitable avenue for a trial,' Liow said.