Sunday, July 27, 2014

If All Else Fails, Send In The Lawyers To Go After Putin

RIA Novosti / Michail Metcel

Putin Facing Multi-Million Pound Legal Action Over Alleged Role In MH17 Crash -- The Telegraph

British lawyers have flown to Ukraine to prepare a class action against the Russian president on behalf of bereaved families

Vladimir Putin is facing a multi-million-pound legal action for his alleged role in the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.

British lawyers are preparing a class action against the Russian president through the American courts. Senior Russian military commanders and politicians close to Mr Putin are also likely to become embroiled in the legal claim.

The case would further damage relations between Mr Putin and the West, but politicians would be powerless to prevent it.

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My Comment: This is going to open a can of worms .... asset seizures and counter lawsuits .... talk about raising tensions to even higher levels.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

40% of the American Congress have law degrees. Is it similar in Britain.

"They say if all you have a hammer everything looks like nail."

Seriously these people went through law school. The only other thing they know is how to politic (manage campaigns, demagogue, read polls, stuff ballot boxes, buy votes).