In mid-May, a cargo plane arrived in the country with a crew made up of 18 people of Iranian and Venezuelan nationalities. They were in the country for around three days and carried a load of 7,000 boxes of cigarettes from Horacio Cartes’ tobacco company; Tabesa for an approximate value of G. 6,000 million.
The plane was stopped a week ago in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after wandering around the continent for several weeks for not having authorization to land. The alert that jumped on the plane was that its crew would be a terrorist according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States.
CONTRADICTIONS
During the morning of Tuesday, national authorities fell into contradictions about the police work during the stay of the crew in our country.
Félix Kanazawa, head of the National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (Dinac), in an interview with 730 AM, stated that a police escort accompanied the delegation to the Dazzler hotel. And in the closed circuits the movements of the 18 crew members are recorded. What is striking is that the senior official avoided specifying why this delegation had said protection, considering that not every crew can benefit from police escorts.
NATIONAL POLICE
After the declarations of Félix Kanazawa, head of Dinac, that Iranians and Venezuelans had police custody after their arrival in the country in mid-May, Federico González, Minister of the Interior, and Gilberto Fleitas, commander of the National Police, denied the allegations. affirmations.
“Migrations, Senad and Dinac are the ones involved in airports. The police are only the second ring, the police control is a secondary aspect”, expressed Fleitas. In other words, the police commander affirms that his institution does not have priority in the controls related to the airport.
He stated that internal control handles other institutions. And that the police handle only the data of where they stayed and with whom they interviewed.
“There are names and surnames of people with whom they interviewed. These documents have already been delivered. It took time to identify since the work was after the departure. After the newspaper publications came out. We made contact with the American embassy. Everything was reported at that time and the work continues, ”she explained.
He pointed out that they have no report on visits to other cities or nightclubs. And he reaffirmed that the Dinac, Migrations and Senad were the institutions in charge of the primary controls.
“I think Paraguay acted according to protocol. Ministers from neighboring countries highlighted that the Minister of the Interior gave the notice, ”he concluded.
INFORMATION REQUESTS
Federico Villena, the federal judge who is handling the case in Argentina, sent seven letters rogatory to countries in the region. It should be remembered that these warrants are proceedings that a judge requests from his peers from other countries, considering that there are jurisdictional limitations within his functions. Uruguay, Paraguay, Iran and Venezuela are some of the countries that received these warrants.
Villena is also waiting for the expertise of the cell phones of the plane’s crew, in addition to the content of the black box that will be this week.
