Anonymous benefactor offers $30 million award for information on Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash culprits

A reward of $30 million has been announced for anyone providing information to the identification of the culprits behind the downing of Malaysian airlines MH17 over Ukraine.

The reward amount is the largest after the $25 million that was offered by the United States to capture Osama bin Laden, says a firm of German investigators. The detective agency Wifka says that an anonymous benefactor had deposited the amount in a bank in Zurich, Switzerland.

The agency also said that the person revealing the information about the crash culprits would be given a new identity. The company said that they wanted to know who had carried out the actual shooting and their whereabouts.

Josef Resch, a Wifka official said that it was just a question of money and that everyone could be bought.

Malaysia airlines Flight MH17 was reportedly shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, killing all 295 people on board. This tragedy occurred nearly four months after the mysterious disappearance of Flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean.  

Flight MH17, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members. The passenger liner came down close to the town of Shaktarsk in Ukraine's rebellion-wracked region of Donetsk after disappearing from the radar. Reports also say that it was a ground-to-air missile or surface-to-air missile that shot down the plane.

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