Russian Delegation Taken To Trump On 'cocaine' Plane

The board gained scandalous notoriety seven years ago.

The Russian delegation traveled to Alaska, where talks with US President Donald Trump will be held, on a "cocaine" plane - a flight that became famous seven years ago when nearly 400 kilograms of cocaine were seized in the buildings of the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires. The Moscow Times writes about it.

The Il-96 aircraft with the flight number RA-96023, which left Vnukovo airport at around 8 a.m. yesterday and arrived in the U.S. Anchorage a few hours later with a Russian delegation on board, became famous in 2018 when nearly 400 kilograms of cocaine were seized in the buildings of the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires.

The Argentine gendarmerie has since published a photo of the Russian airliner that allegedly brought the very cocaine into the country. The investigation showed that the diplomatic mail of the Russian Foreign Ministry was used for this purpose.

Investigators believe that in 2016, businessman Andrey Kovalchuk purchased the drug in Argentina, after which the substance was packed in suitcases and hidden in the back room of the school at the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires.

Ali Abyanov, who worked as the embassy's housekeeper at the time, packed the suitcases in special paper, sealing them with sealing seals, as is done with diplomatic mail. Abianov's contract ran out and he returned to Moscow, and his replacement discovered the suspicious shipment. Embassy security opened the suitcases and found cocaine.

Argentine police seized the drug and destroyed it. Instead, the suitcases were stuffed with bags of flour, sealed and sent to Moscow.

On December 12, 2017, Ali Abyanov and businessmen Vladimir Kalmykov and Ishtimir Khudjamov were detained in Moscow while trying to receive parcels from Buenos Aires. Another defendant in the case, Andrei Kovalchuk, was detained in Germany and extradited to Russia. None of the defendants admitted guilt. They claimed that they were engaged in legitimate business, and the suitcases originally contained coffee, cigars and semi-precious stones. They do not know how cocaine ended up in the suitcases instead of goods.

In 2021, in a Moscow court, the jury found four defendants in the "cocaine case" guilty by a majority vote: Ali Abyanov, Vladimir Kalmykov, Andrei Kovalchuk and Ishtimir Khudjamov.

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