MOSCOW. Nov 16 (Interfax) - The Antonov An-72 cargo aircraft with a Russian crew on board, currently detained at the Kabul Airport, is not owned by Rolkan, the airline company's General Director Sergei Poluyanov said.
"This is not our airplane, we do not have our airplanes there now," he told Interfax.
Supreme Foods employs the majority of freight carriers in that region under contract, Poluyanov said.
"Many are working with them there, they have been chartering cargo planes very actively for their purposes," he said
Radio Ozodi, the Tajik service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, reported earlier that Afghan authorities seized an Antonov An-72 cargo plane at the Kabul airport.
As well as two other An-72 planes belonging to the Russian airline Rolkan Investments Ltd, which were recently confiscated in Tajikistan under a Tajik court ruling, the plane seized in Kabul served the Dutch company Supreme Food.
"The seizure was ordered by the Afghan Transportation Ministry. The reason is the same: this plane also did not have the necessary documents for flying in Afghanistan," Kabul Airport Director Mohammad Yaqub Rasuli was quoted as saying.