NEW YORK: The family of an American teenager killed aboard the MH17 flight launched a court case Thursday against Russian banks and US money transfer companies for helping to finance pro-Moscow separatists accused of shooting it down over Ukraine.In a complaint filed in US federal court, the family of Quinn Lucas Schansman – the only US citizen aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur – takes aim at Russia’s Sberbank and VTB Bank, which have offices in the US, and the Western Union and MoneyGram transfer companies.It accuses them of allowing large amounts of money to be …read more
Source: theSun
