The Prosecutor’s Office opened the case for the plane with Iranian crew and is under summary secrecy

Federal prosecutor Cecilia Incardona today called for an investigation into the case of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane immobilized at Ezeiza airport, which arrived last week in Argentina with a crew composed of, among others, five Iranian crew members. In this way, the file was under summary secrecy, according to judicial sources. The federal judge of Lomas de Zamora, Federico Villena, issued an urgent measure for the National Directorate of Migration to keep, at least for another 72 hours, the passports of the five Iranian citizens who made up the crew of the ship that is at the Ezeiza International Airport. In addition, it accepted as a complainant the Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (DAIA), which hours ago had made public its concern about the presence in the country of the plane of “the Venezuelan company Emtrasur, and linked to the Iranian company Mahan Air, sanctioned by the United States for its links with terrorist activities.” The plane investigated is a Boeing 747 of the company Emtrasur, with Venezuelan registration, which arrived in Ezeiza on Monday of last week at 3:30 p.m., after making a stop in Cordoba before, for weather reasons. The flight came from Caracas, Venezuela, and the crew consisted of the five Iranians who had their passports withheld and 14 Venezuelan citizens. Last Wednesday the plane left for Montevideo, Uruguay, to load fuel that had been denied by two companies in Argentina, but had to return to Buenos Aires because Uruguay prevented it from entering its airspace. When the plane returned to Ezeiza, which at all times declared to be transporting auto parts and was verified, the National Directorate of Migration ordered to retain the documentation of the crew members and grant them a provisional authorization to stay in Argentina.Judge Villena told Migrations to keep the passports of Iranian citizens Mohammad Khosraviaragh,  Gholamreza Ghasemi, Mahdi Mouseli, Saeid Vali Zadeh and Abdolbaset Mohammadi for 72 hours.

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