A French prosecutor is investigating whether a Paris-area airport had been used by a CIA flight last year to transport terror suspects to the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, the daily Le Figaro reported Thursday.

The probe aims to verify whether a Gulfstream III jet, with the registration number N50BH, made a stopover at Le Bourget on July 20 last year from Oslo, Norway, the newspaper reported, citing a Jan. 20 note from the prosecutor in the Paris suburb of Bobigny.

The newspaper said the probe responds to a legal complaint filed in December by human rights groups, and should determine whether the jet was used by the CIA to transport terror suspects to Guantanamo and whether French authorities knew of the Paris stopover.

Source: Xinhua