A federal judge in Argentina ordered the General Directorate of Customs of that country to release all the cargo from the Venezuelan plane of the Emtrasur company, a subsidiary of the state-owned Conviasa, which has been held at the Ezeiza airport for almost two months.
A report from the Argentine newspaper Clarion indicates that the order was issued by Judge Federico Villena, head of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court of Lomas de Zamora 1. Still has not decided on his crew, made up of 14 Venezuelans and 5 Iranians, whose passports were withheld and they were prohibited from leaving the country. Likewise, it is being investigated whether the pilot Gholamreza Ghasemi has connections with the Quds Forces and Hezbollah.
After the retention of the plane in Ezeiza, it was learned that it was transporting almost 50,000 kilos of auto parts for the company SAS Automotriz Argentina. A part of them was destined for a plant of the German company Volkswagen. And another 7,860 kilos are located in a hangar awaiting the judicial decision.
FBI: yes there are terrorist links
The FBI assured the Argentine Justice that the pilot Gholamreza Ghasemi has an alleged link to terrorists, according to a report. The US agency forwarded that information to the judge.
But gobierno Argentinian denied any kind of relationship between Ghasemi and the Iranian forces, considering him to be a namesake. A hypothesis contradicted by Esteban Aquino, head of the Paraguayan National Intelligence Secretariat.
“According to what we know, and allied agencies confirmed to us, it is a person linked to the Quds. It’s not similar, it’s not homonym or anything. It’s the person”said Aquino, in line with the data supported by the FBI report.
Clarion He pointed out that time is beginning to play against the Argentine Justice because it has not yet managed to collect evidence to prosecute any of the crew members.