Emtrasur owned a Boeing 747-300M that previously belonged to Iranian airline Mahan Air, a company that American assistant secretary of export enforcement at the Department of Commerce, Matthew S. Axelrod, alleges has helped the terrorist group, Hezbollah, in the past.[1]
On June 8, 2022, the Boeing 747 arrived in Argentina, after a flight that originated in Mexico with a stop-over in Venezuela. Two days later, it flew to Uruguay on a refueling flight but was returned to Argentina that same day, landing at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires.[2] The 747 was subsequently detained in Argentine territory for two years.[3]
The airplane ran into more controversy when a member of the Venezuelan embassy in Argentina took a photo of it, and, two days later, the Argentine government allowed it to be flown to the United States, where it landed at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on February 12, 2024.Шаблон:Cn
The United States Department of Justice declared the airplane would be "prepared for disposition" without elaborating more on their plans for Emtrasur's jet.[4] The 747 was subsequently confiscated and scrapped on February 28, 2024.[5][3]
