While the investigation into the Venezuelan cargo plane, held at the Ezeiza airport since last Friday, progresses, the Federal Police carried out a trespassing at the Plaza Central Canning Hotel, where the 19 crew members of the aircraft were staying, including five Iranians.
During registerthe authorities inspected the rooms of foreigners and other hotel guests who could be related to the plane, this after the federal judge of Lomas de Zamora Federico Villena ordered the trespassing.
The operation began around 12:00 on Monday night and lasted more than 10 hours, according to Infobae. In addition, it was found that during the trespassingboth Venezuelans and Iranians did not show resistance to the procedure.
During the investigation, the Police searched for personal items of the detained crew members, such as cell phones, computers, flash drives and other implements that could serve as evidentiary material in the investigation, on which summary secrecy was imposed at the request of the prosecutor of the Cecilia Incardona case. .
By the end the operative The authorities withheld for another 72 hours the passports of the 14 Venezuelans and five Iranians who were traveling on board the EMTRASUR Boeing 747-300M plane, which is immobilized until the reasons for their entry into the country are determined.
Meanwhile, the government is investigating whether the Iranian crew members have links with terrorist groups, given that Security Minister Aníbal Fernández confirmed on Monday that the name of one of the foreigners coincides with that of a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
This is Captain Gholamreza Ghasemi Abbas, who apparently would be a member of the board of directors and executive director of the airline Qeshm Fars Airused by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which was classified as a terrorist by the United States.
Why the aircraft and crew are being investigated
The Venezuelan Boeing 747 plane carrying auto parts arrived in the country from Mexico on June 6. Two days later he tried to enter Uruguay, but the authorities of that country denied him access to their airspace, so the aircraft had to return to the Argentine airport, where he was detained.
This, given a series of alleged irregularities in its flight manifest, which raised the suspicions of the authorities, which is why the ongoing investigation was initiated.
