Venezuelan plane with Iranians is held in Argentina on suspicion, according to official sources

A Boeing 747 plane carrying auto parts and carrying 14 Venezuelan and five Iranian crew members has been held since Monday at the Ezeiza airport (to the south), after raising suspicions about the reasons for its flight to Argentinaofficial sources informed AFP on Sunday.

Local authorities reported that there are no detainees and that all the crew members were housed in hotels with temporary stay permits. Nevertheless, immigration officials withheld the Iranians’ passports.

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“The Federal Justice of (the municipality of) Lomas de Zamora (judge Federico Villena) requested reports from Immigration, Airport Police, Civil Aviation Administration and Customs in order to resolve the release of the Venezuelan plane, immobilized in Ezeiza and the return of passports to the Iranian crew, within the framework of a habeas corpus filed by the lawyer Rafael Resnick Brenner”official sources told AFP.

Migrations indicated that they can return their passports earlier if they leave the country on a regular airline flight while the investigations progress.

The embassies of Iran Y Venezuela They were informed “through diplomatic channels, within the framework of the Vienna Convention on consular relations, about the presentation made by the lawyer Brenner*, the sources assured.

The immigration authorities explained in a statement: “When there is a well-founded suspicion that the real intention that motivates the entry differs from that manifested at the time of obtaining the visa or presenting itself to immigration control and until it is corroborated, your entry will not be authorized. to Argentine territory and must remain in the facilities of the point of entry.

Argentina always considers the presence of Iranian travelers sensitive, due to the red capture alerts issued by Interpol that apply to former rulers of their country, accused of links to the attack on the AMIA center of the Argentine Jewish community committed in 1994, which left a balance of 85 dead and about 300 wounded.

The local press indicated that the plane belongs to the Venezuelan company Emtrasur and that was bought in February from the Iranian Mahanair, investigated in the United States for alleged links with Tehran’s military forces.

The aircraft had landed on Monday the 6th in the city of Córdoba (center of the country), as a precaution due to the fog in the Argentine capital and then flew to Ezeiza.

Source: Elcomercio

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