Tag: Emtrasur

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Paraguayan President pledges to up intelligence funding

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez last week announced he would up funding for the National Intelligence Secretariat (SNI), an agency created in 2018. Abdo justified his move on the body's precarious budget, due to which it relies on foreign cooperation to fulfill its mission.

• Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 07:42 UTC

  Prosecutor wants Emtrasur plane and crew to stay pending lab reports

  

  Argentine prosecutors handling the case of the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza international airport Friday objected to the aircraft's crew being allowed to leave the country.

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Maduro picks Air Force man linked to Emtrasur for Tehran embassy

  

  Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro has picked a new ambassador to Teheran, who happens to be a military colleague of one of the crew members of the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 held in Buenos Aires since June, it was reported.

• Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  Argentine judge releases Emtrasur 747's cargo

  

  Argentine Federal Judge Federico Villena Monday ordered the release of the cargo brought into the country aboard the Venezuelan-Iranian Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza International airport after the nature of the flight and the size of the crew rose suspicion.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 07:04 UTC

  Iran files petition on behalf of its Emtrasur 747 crewmembers

  

  The Government of Iran has requested Argentina's Judiciary lifts the travel ban on the five Asian country's nationals who have been staying at a hotel near the Ezeiza international airport following the seizing of a Venezuela-flagged Boeing 747-300.

• Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Conviasa suspends Caracas-Buenos Aires route

  

  Venezuela's flag carrier Conviasa has announced it will halt its Caracas-Buenos Aires route at least until September in light of the refueling problems all its aircraft face for belonging to a company blacklisted by the US Treasury.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Venezuelan carrier executives claim nothing wrong with 747

  

  Emtrasur CEO César Pérez said in an interview that the Iranian crew members of the company's Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza International Airport were flight instructors and that the scandal that has unfolded was “ridiculous.”

• Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Emtrasur: Judge asks US for information on aircraft and crew link to terrorism

  

  Argentine Federal Judge Federico Villena has sent rogatory letters to United States authorities to determine whether the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 held at the Ezeiza airport was subject to any formal embargo or restriction, it was reported Friday in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, June 24th 2022 - 00:28 UTC

  Paraguay launches probe into Emtrasur 747's Ciudad del Este stop

  

  Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez has instructed the Anti-corruption Minister René Fernández to request the Prosecutor's Office to launch a probe into the stop in Ciudad del Este in May of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 aircraft with Iranian pilots currently held in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Emtrasur scandal: Pilot's cell phone shows he belonged to Al Quds

  

  The cell phone belonging to the Iranian captain of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 seized by Argentine authorities at the Ezeiza international airport included pictures of a much younger Gholamreza Ghasemi being a fighting member of the Al Quds Revolutionary Guard, it was reported Wednesday in Buenos Aires.