What the company that carried the cargo of the now investigated Venezuelan-Iranian plane said

After judge Federico Villena established the country’s ban on the Iranians who made up the crew of the Venezuelan plane detained at Ezeiza airport after irregular maneuvers, the company that led the shipment in that aircraft he went out to give his version and broke away from the history of the machine as well as from those of its crew. “It has nothing to do with the situation of the Boeing 747-300 cargo plane of Venezuelan origin,” said SAS Automotriz Argentina SA from SAS.

The controversial plane was detected after Uruguay’s refusal, on June 8, when it was prevented from entering its airspace to refuel, alerted by suspicions and complaints about the plane’s past and while prosecutor Cecilia Incardona reacts to open an investigation in a judicial proceeding, as requested by the judge, after rejecting a habeas corpus filed by lawyer K.

The plane would have been owned by the Iranian company Mahan Airsanctioned by the United States, which in January of this year would have sold it Emtrasurthe cargo airline of the Venezuelan state company Conviasa.

SAS Automotriz Argentina SA explained that “it has entered into a contract Fracht USA Freight Forwarding Servicesan international company that provides logistics services “.

“The contract was stipulated for the transport of components destined for the production of dashboards and seats for the Taos model, from the city of Querétaro, Mexico; The relationship between the forwarder and the airline for the arrival in Argentina of the aforementioned parts is something that SAS Automotriz Argentina SA unknown and unrelated“he broke off.

And expanded: “The transported load was released in full after the corresponding customs control procedures. SAS Automotriz Argentina SA has complied with the legal and compliance regulations governing this type of contract, “said Volkswagen’s auto parts supplier.

SAS is a french company, Part of the group Fauresia a global automotive supplier based in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris. It is none other than ninth international producer the largest auto parts company in the world.

Those parts that the plane brought have always traveled boatbut the pandemic first and the war in Ukraine later are complicating the logistics in such a way that many are now taken on cargo flights.

Therefore, SAS has hired a customs agent who is in charge of receiving the flights and that the cargo arrives at its destination on time. This is no small detail.

Car manufacturers work with the Japanese just-in-time concept with low inventory and if parts fail, the production line is paralyzed. Volkswagen makes around 200 TAOS a day at Pacheco. On Wednesday, the seats were ready at his factory in the north.

Volkswagen also takes off

This Sunday, Volkswagen had released your own statement in which he reported that “it has no relation to the situation of the Boeing 747-300 freight aircraft of Venezuelan origin”.

And they claimed they didn’t know the relationship between the company that sells them the products and the airline that the aforementioned parts arrive in Argentina “is something Volkswagen Argentina SA unknown and it has nothing to do with the events that happened.

The arrival of the Iranians raised all kinds of suspicions because of the link they have with the regime of Nicolás Maduro and the responsibility that country had in the AMIA attack. In fact, suspicions have emerged about a possible link between the pilot and the group. Come on Qudthe Revolutionary Guard of Tehran, considered a terrorist group by the United States.

The forwarder chosen by SAS is the Fracht company, an international company expert in these matters. Both Volkswagen and SAS have disassociated themselves from this flight. They both pointed to Frachtcompany that, despite the insistent phone calls, has not yet given any explanation.

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