This exact aircraft is engulfed in the murky controversy over Argentine claims of a trafficking route to Moscow from Buenos Aires involving the Russian embassy in the city. But in South America, bugged conversations between detained suspects indicate a major smuggling route was operating previously via the embassy, said Russian economist Maxim Mironov, on secondment in Argentina. Mironov alleged: 'This is a story about a drugs mafia that can give direct orders to security officers of the Russian embassy.' Theresa May had given the 23 'diplomats' a week to leave Britain in reaction to the nerve agent attack in Salisbury two weeks ago. Checks on private planes were being stepped up and Russia's spy network had been 'dismantled' by the expulsion of 23 diplomats, a spokesman said.

Source: Daily Mail March 20, 2018 10:04 UTC