An Argentine prosecutor who recently accused President Cristina de Kirchner of involvement in an alleged cover up of a probe into a deadly bombing and an ensuing oil-for-grain proposed deal with Iran has been shot dead, Upstream reports.
Alberto
Nisman was found dead inside his luxury Buenos Aires apartment on Sunday with a
handgun that was not his own and a shell casing found beside his body.
Nisman
had only last week filed a 300-page presentation to a Buenos Aires court
alleging that de Kirchner had conducted secret negotiations with Iran through
non-diplomatic channels to cover-up Iran’s alleged involvement in a 1994 bombing
of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that left 85 people dead.
The
AMIA centre attack remains unresolved, but suspicion fell on key Iranian
diplomatic personnel active in Argentina at the time.
Nisman
claimed that de Kirchner was willing to cancel an international arrest warrant
for a senior Iranian diplomat in exchange for an oil-for-grain deal with the
sanctions-hit Middle Eastern state.
The
accusations, which were dismissed at the time by de Kirchner’s office as
“ridiculous”, were based on alleged phone taps on close aides to the president.
The
UK’s Guardian newspaper quoted Viviana Fein, investigating prosecutor into
Nisman’s death, as saying a preliminary autopsy found there was “no
intervention” in his death.
“The
firearm belonged to a collaborator of Nisman,” Fein told Todo Noticias
television channel.
“He
had had it a long time.”
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