The court banned 14 Venezuelans, who were part of the crew of a Venezuelan-flagged cargo plane, from leaving Argentina on Tuesday, 14, including five Iranians whose passports were withheld by the authorities, forensic sources informed.
The action was taken by Lomas de Zamora’s federal judge, Federico Villena, following a search and seizure operation in the presence of federal police in the hotel rooms where the Boeing 747 crew, who have since been detained, have been staying. 8 June at Ezeiza International Airport.
“They came looking for the 19 rooms, not the hotel. Everything went fine, very correct, smooth. We were not allowed to go upstairs, so we were not allowed to know anything about what was going on.” the director told AFP from the Plaza Central Canning hotel, César Giuggioloni, at the entrance to the resort.
The case is within the scope of legal secrecy.
“There are five Iranians and 14 Venezuelans, each staying in a single room of the 51 people at the hotel,” said Giuggioloni, adding that he was “informed first on Monday and then tomorrow that they will leave.” [quarta-feira] and now I believe they are scheduled for Friday”.
seven hour operation
According to a police source, mobile phones, personal computers and various documents were seized during the operation that started at dawn and lasted for seven hours.
The hotel is located in the town of Ezeiza, near the Buenos Aires international airport, 40 km from the capital, and downstairs there is a shopping center with various shops and restaurants.
“Passengers can come and go freely, there are no restrictions,” said the hotel manager.
The ban on Venezuelans to leave the country has been enforced since Monday, in addition to a similar measure imposed on Iranian crew members, in response to “reasonable suspicions of alleged reason for entry”. [na Argentina] cannot be true or true”, according to the court decision.
Argentina considers the presence of Iranian travelers sensitive, given the red warnings of arrests by Interpol against former officials of the Asian country accused of the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires that left 85 dead and nearly 300 dead. wounded.
The Argentine Delegation of Israel Associations (DAIA) is one of the parties in the judicial investigation into the aircraft.
route
The plane, which arrived in Argentina from Mexico on June 6 and then tried to land unsuccessfully in Uruguay, belongs to Emtrasur, a subsidiary of Venezuelan Conviasa, which is on the US Treasury Department’s sanctions list.
However, Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro visited Tehran at the weekend, did not make an official statement about the case.
A government official in Querétaro, Mexico, confirmed to AFP on Tuesday that the plane took off from the airport on June 5 and made sure that international protocols were followed.
“The entire review carried out in Querétaro by the federal authorities and airport management was in line with international protocols,” said Marco Antonio Del Prete, the local government’s Sustainable Development Secretary.
He added that the plane had arrived in Querétaro with its four crew and was authorized to fly the Caracas-Querétaro-Caracas-Buenos Aires-Caracas route in Mexico.
“I don’t know if there were any changes to the flight plan after we left Mexican airspace,” Del Prete said.
The cargo ship landed at the Mexican airport at 6:30 am (8:30 am EDT) on June 4, without specifying the identity or nationality of the crew, as it was not within its jurisdiction, he said.
According to the official, the plane arrived two days late due to the delay in the delivery of documents.
After loading and loading “industrial goods”, Boeing left Querétaro “with the knowledge of the Federal Civil Aviation Agency, National Institute of Migration, customs officials and airport administration” on June 5 at 6:37 PM.
In May, the same plane went to Paraguay, from where it made a shipment of cigarettes to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Paraguayan Interior Minister Federico González announced this Tuesday that he is laying off two employees who allowed the landing.
source: Noticias
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