The Estonian Foreign Ministry confirmed to the agency that Rõivas was removed from the flight to Japan.
At the same time, the head of the department’s public relations bureau, Liisa Toots, did not comment on the reasons why the politician was kicked off the plane.
“Members of the business delegation are free in their actions and decisions, and the ministry is not responsible for the members of the business delegation or their movements,” RIA Novosti quotes her.
In 2018, an airline employee hijacked a plane from the airport in the American city of Seattle.
Shortly afterwards he crashed.
In 2020, a resident of Dubna, Moscow region, was detained in Simferopol for drunken disorder on board an airplane.