A Boeing 747 plane that transported auto parts and carried 14 Venezuelan crew members and five Iranians has been held since Monday at the Ezeiza airport (to the south)after arousing suspicions about the reasons for his flight to Argentina, official sources informed AFP on Sunday.
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Local authorities reported that there are no detainees and that all the crew members were housed in hotels with temporary stay permits. However, 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 are carried out.
The embassies of Iran and Venezuela were informed “through diplomatic channels, within the framework of the Vienna Convention on consular relations, about the presentation made by lawyer Brenner,” the sources said.
The immigration authorities explained in a statement: “When there is a well-founded suspicion that the real intention that motivates the entry differs from the one manifested at the time of obtaining the visa or appearing before the immigration control and until it is corroborated, their entry will not be authorized. to Argentine territory and must remain in the facilities of the point of entry”.
[POLÍTICA] The Justice endorsed the Government’s decision to withhold the passports of the Iranian citizens who were traveling on the Venezuelan plane held in Ezeiza. pic.twitter.com/afRT5ainqg
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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 against the AMIA center of the Jewish community
Argentina committed in 1994, which left a balance of 85 dead and some 300 wounded.
The Argentine press pointed out that the plane belongs to the Venezuelan company Emtrasur and that it was bought in February from the Iranian company Mahan Air, which is being investigated in the United States for alleged links with Tehran’s military forces.
The plane tried to land in Uruguay on June 8, but authorization was denied and it returned to Argentina.
When consulted in this regard, the Uruguayan Minister of Defense, Javier García, said on Sunday that he obtained “information that the Ministry of the Interior had received [Luis Alberto Heber] from foreign agencies” and ordered the aircraft “to return if there was no humanitarian reason.
García did not clarify what the information was about, but according to the Uruguayan press it had to do with the US Treasury sanctions against Venezuela and Iran.
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.
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*With information from AFP
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