A court in Canada has ruled that Iran should pay about $84 million in punitive damages to families of six people with Canadian citizenship or residency who were killed in the Iranian military s downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in 2020.
While an Ontario court recently awarded $107 million to the families of the victims of Flight PS752 shot down by Iran's Revolutionary Guard two years ago both the lawyer representing the families and an expert on international law say getting the money out of Iran will be very difficult.
(Reuters) - A court in Ontario, Canada, has awarded C$107 million ($83.94 million), plus interest, to the families of six people who died when the Iranian Revolutionary Guards downed a Ukraine International Airlines plane near Tehran two years ago.