Lunes 19 de enero de 2015 | 17:57

English version of prosecutor Nisman's death

The federal prosecutor Natalio Alberto Nisman was found dead in his apartment, in Puerto Madero neighborhood, hours before a Congressional hearing, where he was set to provide details on the criminal complaint against the President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner he had filed last week.

Some days ago, Nisman had requested a preliminary statement from the President. He accused her of agreeing not to punish Iran in relation to the investigation of the 1994 AMIA bombing, an attack where 85 people were killed.

Judicial sources told LA NACION that, on Sunday afternoon, Nisman's family tried to contact him but he did not answer the phone. His mother went to the 13th floor in Le Parc tower, where her son lived. She knocked at the door but nobody answered. She could not enter the apartment because she did not know the electronic access code. So, she tried to get into the apartment through the service door but failed again since a key was in the lock on the other side. A locksmith was called to open it.

When they finally could open the door, they found Nisman shot dead; a bullet wound to the head. The body was in his bathroom. The results of the autopsy are expected to establish in which circumstances Nisman died.

The prosecutor, who was in charge of the investigation of the AMIA case, had claimed that the President Cristina Kirchner and her foreign minister, Héctor Timerman, should be investigated. They are accused of covering up Iran in relation to the AMIA bombing and also of "creating the innocence" of the Iranian former officials involved in the attack.

The preliminary statement request was extended to the congressman and chief of La Cámpora, Andrés Larroque; as well as to the "piquetero" leader, Luis D'Elía; the chief of Quebracho group, Fernando Esteche; a former instructing judge that worked for the former SIDE, Héctor Yrimia, and an eminent intelligence agent that works for the Head of State.

The legal charge includes phone tapping that would reveal that the President called a trustworthy agent of the former SIDE or Larroque and they informed D'Elía or Esteche about those orders. Also, D'Elía told the alleged Iranian agent Alejandro Yussuf Khalil, who, in turn, called Mohsen Rabbani, one of the fugitives of the attack, in Iran.

According to Nisman's complaint, Cristina Kirchner agreed not to accuse Teheran in order to being able to buy cheap oil in exchange for grains. For that purpose, she agreed to a red herring where "local facho" groups are accused. In this way, they would create Iran's innocence in relation to the terrorist attack

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1761380-english-version-of-prosecutor-nismans-death