The Dutch-Argentine pilot Julio Poch, extradited to Argentina on charges of helping kill opponents of the military junta, will face four Dutch prosecution witnesses via videolink.

Poch denies involvement in the death flights, during which opponents of the regime (1976-1983) were drugged and thrown out of planes.

However, he is alleged to have told a number of pilots at airline Transavia, where he worked between 1988 and 2010, he was involved in the death flights.

Those claims were the basis for his arrest and deportation.

Videolink

The 62-year-old Poch is on trial in Buenos Aires where the court has requested that the Dutch pilots be questioned by videolink.

On Wednesday, the first two will sit in a courtroom in Rotterdam to be questioned by the Argentine prosecutor, judges and Poch himself. Two others will follow a week later.

Poch has requested a further six witnesses be heard from Rotterdam, this time for the defence.

He is one of 67 suspects currently undergoing a mass trial.