International Policy
Argentine justice ordered to deliver the Venezuelan-Iranian aircraft to the U.S.
Federal Judge Federico Villena decided to seize and deliver the Venezuelan-Iranian aircraft, seized in Ezeiza since June last year, to the United States Justice, in the midst of a diplomatic conflict with Chavism.
In a resolution, Villena rejected a request of the Venezuelan government, represented by lawyer Maximiliano Rusconi, and gave the final order of confiscation against the Boeing 747-300, registration number YV-3531 serial number 23413. He then ordered the delivery of the aircraft, which is in Ezeiza, to the Government of the United States of America, judicial sources informed Clarín. The delivery will be made when a series of maintenance tasks on the aircraft are completed.
(...)
All this in the midst of a new source of diplomatic tension that broke out between the government of Javier Milei and the Chavista regime.
The Attorney General's Office of the Nation expressed this afternoon to the Chancellor Diana Mondino its
"deep concern" for the disqualification made by the regime of Nicolás Maduro of prosecutors Cecilia Incardona and Diego Solernó for their opinion in favor of handing over the Venezuelan-Iranian plane to the U.S. Justice, which Clarín reported on Friday.
La Justicia ordenó entregar el avión venezolano-iraní a los Estados Unidos.
El Boeing 747-300 había sido incautado por la justicia federal de Lomas de Zamora en medio de un conflicto diplomático con el chavismo. pic.twitter.com/GFf0Q6WFPD
— TN – Todo Noticias (@todonoticias) January 3, 2024
The aircraft, a Boeing 747 Dreamliner cargo plane, was owned by the Iranian company Mahan Air and currently belongs to Emtrasur, a subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned Conviasa, companies that are sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro himself had implicated himself in the case: "
They intend to steal from us an airplane that is Venezuelan property, legally Venezuelan property, in Argentina by virtue of an order of an imperial court" (US), he said in 2022.
Last week, Maduro compared President Javier Milei to
"Videla and Pinochet" and called him a "neo-Nazi".
El juez federal Federico Villena decidió decomisar y entregar el Boeing a la justicia de EE.UU. luego de que la fiscal opinara en forma favorable.
www.clarin.com
I really didn't know in which War thread to put this news, so I conclude that this whole thing really sucks, it seems that in argentina there is a Gordian knot of corruption through which pass from Israelis to Iranians with merchandise selling all over the america, I have too much fantasy to imagine what was on that plane and where it was going, the conclusion anyway makes clear , in action, the pro-Israeli stance of the Milei government and the Maduro personage will not skimp on making a drama out of this for war purposes.