U.S. Indicts Belarusian Officials Over ‘Air Piracy’ Incident

Ryanair 737 forced to at Minsk landing at Vilnius
Credit: Petras Malukas/AFP/Getty Images
The U.S. Justice Department has indicted four Belarusian government officials that it says were instrumental in the May 2021 diversion of a Ryanair flight that resulted in the arrest of two dissidents. Indictments have been laid against Leonid Mikalaevich Churo, DG of the eastern European nation’s...
Alan Dron

Based in London, Alan is Europe & Middle East correspondent at Air Transport World.

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