Alberto Nisman: Prosecutor who accused Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Iranian bomb cover-up found dead
Andrew Buncombe
The Independent [UK]
19 January 2015
An Argentinian prosecutor who accused the country’s president of orchestrating a cover-up of the investigation into a notorious bomb attack on a Jewish community centre has been found dead – hours before he was to testify at a closed-door hearing.
Reports said that Alberto Nisman, 51, who had been examining the 1994 blast that left 85 people dead and over which Iranian officials have accused, was found dead in his apartment in Buenos Aires. A small calibre handgun was found next to his body by security guards, alerted on Sunday afternoon by Mr Nisman’s mother who said he was not answering his phone or else the door of his 13th floor flat…
…Reuters said that Mr Nisman claimed last week that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had conducted secret negotiations with Iran through non-diplomatic channels, offering to cover up the involvement of Iranian officials so Argentina could start swapping grain for much-needed oil from Iran. Local media said he had due to take part in a closed-door hearing in parliament on Monday to explain his accusations against Ms Fernández…
The complete article, with video, is at The Independent.
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…Nisman was so thorough that his research found the exact date that the attack was planned: Aug. 14, 1993, in the Iranian city of Mashad. Argentina later apologized to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for covering up the real story.
By 2009, after years of death threats, Nisman had taken to living with bodyguards…
