The
first secretary of the Venezuelan embassy in Argentina was involved in a dark episode
.
The official was delayed after illegally taking photos of an official from the United States embassy and the secretary of the court led by the federal judge of Lomas de Zamora Federico Villena.
Both were being
photographed without permission by the Chavista diplomat
when they were inspecting the Boeing 747-300 belonging to the Venezuelan company Emtrasur, a machine purchased in turn from the Persian company Maham Air.
The aircraft has been detained in Ezeiza since June 2022 due to another irregular incident and faces confiscation
at the request of the US justice system
, which will be carried out shortly.
That is, the plane is about to be taken to the United States.
The Venezuelan diplomat who was delayed is José Jesús Jatar Díaz.
He was taking photos and was on the Ezeiza runway when the new authorities of the Airport Security Police (PSA) intercepted him along with another man who was carrying him in a van from the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC).
The Chavista official was
with a credential that did not authorize him to be there and after being delayed he was declared “persona non grata.”
He left the country on Thursday without being expelled, it was reported from Migrations.
This scandal
affects the leaders of La Cámpora,
who managed and continue to manage in one way or another parts of the ANAC, and
Nicolas Maduro's ambassador in Buenos Aires, Stella Lugo
, because Jatar Díaz is and was his right-hand man since She was governor of the state of Falcón.
This was stated by high sources to this newspaper.
According to other sources that study the financing of narco-terrorism,
Jatar Díaz would have entered the Venezuelan foreign service at the hands of Ghazi Nasr al-Dine
(his name is also written as Nassereddine),
a Lebanese and also Venezuelan citizen whom the FBI maintains on its
“wanted” list.
He is accused of being linked to the Shiite militia Hezbollah, which according to Argentine justice is responsible for the terrorist attacks on the Israeli embassy here and the AMIA.
Ghazi Nasr al-Dine is also accused of being related to the drug trafficking of the Suns cartel along with Tareck el Aissami, former vice president and former Minister of Oil of Venezuela, today out of the public scene.
When he was delayed, Jatar Díaz did not want to hand over his phone and at the time it was at the disposal of the PNA,
another official from the Chavista embassy went to claim it from the Foreign Ministry.
This newspaper could not determine what happened to the Argentine ANAC official who was also delayed.
The version used by the investigators is that the truck that was carrying the Venezuelan was from the ANAC (National Administration of Civil Aviation) that the
camper Paola Tamburell
i would still dominate and whose role was criticized in the entry of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane piloted by a former member of Iran's Quds Force.
While the Milei government has not yet appointed an ambassador in Caracas after the departure of the Kirchnerist leader Oscar Laborde from that position, the Chavista ambassador
Lugo has remained here since she arrived in 2020
but her position was very compromised.
The ambassadors of the group that brings together the entire region known as Grulac.
It was at the Brazilian embassy a week ago.
The Venezuelan ambassador, Stella Lugo, is third from right to left, in the front row.
Diana Mondino next to Ambassador Julio Bitelli, from Brazil
Jara Díaz responded even from the time when she was Minister of Tourism and governor of the state of Falcón for two consecutive periods from 2008 to 2017. And she is extremely close to and trusted by Maduro.
María Eugenia Tallerico, former number two of the Financial Information Unit (UIF) commanded by Mariano Federici, tweeted this Friday.
"In the government of @JMilei there can be no Kirchnerist elements in the management of strategic organizations. The ambassador of Venezuela in Argentina, Stella Lugo Betancourt must be expelled from our country right now @DianaMondino @CancilleriaARG," she wrote.
It was never known what the plane was doing here.
The photo-taking episode occurred,
Clarín
learned , in the middle of the preparation of the plane so that it would be taken shortly from Argentina to the United States and end one of the most mysterious chapters surrounding this Boeing. that Chavismo bought from Iran's Maham Air and that it was detained in Ezeiza in June 2022 when
no oil company - not even YPF - wanted to supply it with fuel because the aircraft is under the United States sanctions scheme
for alleged links with the terrorism.
It tried to land in Uruguay, which denied it an airport and it was redirected first to Córdoba and then to Ezeiza.
At the time, the crew of 14
Venezuelans and five Iranians
was detained to also find out links with the Al Quds militias, but they had to be released in the middle of Maduro's campaign for the plane and Iran's claims.
But also because the investigations did not produce results that would allow them to be arrested.
Both the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cuneo Libarona, and Judge Villena
want to comply with the request and with the judicial treaties in force with the United States.