Buenos Aires, Argentina: Venezuelan crew of freighters landing outside Buenos Aires from last week may not be able to leave Argentina, judges said on Tuesday that their hotel room was investigating a possible link to an Iranian terrorist group. Ruling after being searched in. Police raided 14 Venezuelan and 5 Iranian crew rooms the day after authorities raised allegations of ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is listed by the United States as a foreign “terrorist organization.”
Iranian crew had already temporarily seized passports, and Venezuelans were restricted in their freedom after police confiscated mobile phones, computers and documents in an early morning attack on Tuesday. They were reportedly on board a Venezuelan Boeing 747 freighter carrying auto parts that arrived to land in Cordoba, Argentina from Mexico last Monday. The plane then attempted to move to neighboring Uruguay, but was denied entry and returned to Eseisa, a suburb of Buenos Aires, where it landed last Wednesday. The plane belongs to Emtrasur, a subsidiary of Conviasa in Venezuela under US sanctions.
The judge grounded the plane given “reasonable suspicion that the reason for entering (Argentina) may not be true.” Police did not comment on the reason for the hotel search, but on Monday, Security Minister AnÃbal Fernandez was associated with a company whose crew was partly associated with Iran’s Iranian ideological army, the Revolutionary Guard Corps. He said he received information from a “foreign organization” that there was a possibility.
Fernandez said no one was on Interpol’s wanted list, but fewer crew members were reported in the flight records than he was actually on board. The crew list included “relatives of the Iranian Minister of Interior,” Fernandez said. His name “matches the name of a member of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.”
“terrorist”
Also on Tuesday, Paraguay said two officials who allowed the plane to land in May were fired and two anti-drug agents are under investigation. According to an expert site, Interior Minister Federico Gonzaloes said the plane landed in Paraguay with a “commercial” entry permit by 18 crew members. After spending nearly three days at Guarani International Airport near the Argentine-Brazil border, I left for Aruba in the Caribbean on May 16 with a lot of Paraguayan cigarettes.
After it left, “We say that the aircraft is licensed by the U.S. Treasury, seven of its crew are members of the (security guard) Arkud Army, and the U.S. lists them. I was contacted by a terrorist, “said the minister. Paraguay has warned intelligence agencies in other countries in the region. Mexican officials said on Tuesday that the plane arrived in Queretaro on June 4, with four crew members and full compliance with all protocols.
Queretaro official Marco Antonio del Prete arrived at AFP two days late due to airworthiness, insurance, other certificates, and early issues regarding “crew documentation.” After refueling and loading the “industrial products,” he added, the Boeing jet departed Queretaro on June 5, with permission for the Caracas-Queretaro-Caracas-Buenos Aires-Caracas flight route. rice field. “I don’t know if there were any changes to the flight plan after leaving Mexico’s airspace,” said Del Prete.
Iran said on Monday that Argentina’s move is part of a “promotion” campaign against Tehran in tensions with Western nations over negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. The landing of the freighter took place a few days before Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s visit to Teheran on Saturday, allowing allies subject to US sanctions to sign a 20-year cooperation agreement.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the plane was sold to a Venezuelan company by Iran’s Mahan Air last year. Mahan Air has been accused by the United States of America for its relationship with the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Interpol issued an arrest warrant in 1994 for killing 85 people and injuring hundreds of former Iranian leaders suspected of being involved in an attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. – AFP
