New charges pressed against crew of plane Il-76 arrested in Thailand
Almaty. January 10. Kazakhstan Today - The crew of the plane Il-76, arrested a month ago in Thailand, has been pressed with the new charges, the agency reports citing Vesti.Ru.
The pilots have been accused of illegal transportation of weapons, its illegal import in the country, and concealment of the fact of the presence of weapons onboard, the newspaper Bangkok Post writes.
As informed earlier, the plane Il-76 of the Georgian airline Air West Georgia was detained at the airport Don Myang in Bangkok on December 12, 2009, where it landed to re-fuel on the way from Pyongyang. The arms forbidden to export from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by the decision of the UN Security Council were revealed onboard of the plane: rocket-propelled grenades, surface-to-air missile launchers, and other weapons. The crew members - the citizen of Belarus and four citizens of Kazakhstan have been detained and accused of illegal storage of weapons and its transportation through the Kingdom of Thailand territory.
According to the official representative of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Yerzhan Ashikbayev, Kazakhstan insists on innocence of the arrested Kazakhstan pilots in Thailand.
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