REPORT: Plane believed to be carrying Snowden lands in Moscow

                       
A passenger plane thought to be carrying former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden landed in Moscow on Sunday.
   
Airport officials said the flight from Hong Kong had landed but could not immediately confirm Snowden, who is charged by Washington with espionage, was on board.

But a source at the Russian airline Aeroflot said he had booked a seat on the flight.

Earlier, former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden will fly from Moscow to Cuba on Monday and then plans to go to Venezuela, a source at the Russian airline Aeroflot said on Sunday.

The source said Snowden was already on his way to Moscow from Hong Kong and would leave for Havana within 24 hours. 

The WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website said on Sunday that Snowden was heading for an unnamed "democratic nation".
 
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said last week he would not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London even if Sweden stopped pursuing sexual assault claims against him because he feared arrest on the orders of the United States. 

This as the Russian news agencies Interfax and Itar-Tass cited sources at Russian airline Aeroflot as saying on Sunday that former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is booked on a flight from Moscow to Cuba on Monday.   

Itar-Tass cited its source as saying Snowden would fly from Havana to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.    

The Russian Foreign Ministry said it was looking into the situation and confirmed Snowden may be planning to travel through Moscow as a transit passenger en route to another destination.

REUTERS


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