"The trial is currently ongoing and the RM23.32mil is 30% of the trial cost which the government will bear next year to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice," he said when winding up his ministerial replies on Budget 2021 at the Dewan Rakyat on Monday.
All 298 people on board, comprising 43 Malaysians, 193 Dutch nationals and 27 Australians, were killed. In September this year, the Dutch government announced that it plans to take Russia to the European Court of Human Rights over the downing of MH17. He reminded lawmakers that former Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng had agreed in 2019 to replace the existing ferries with catamarans.