Argentina probes mystery DNA at dead prosecutor’s home

Argentine forensic experts began work Tuesday to trace the source of unidentified DNA found at the home of a prosecutor who died mysteriously while investigating alleged misconduct by President Cristina Kirchner. Investigators searching prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s Buenos Aires apartment after he was found dead on January 18 uncovered DNA that differed from his but has not yet been identified.

It remains unknown who the genetic profile that differs from Nisman’s corresponds to.

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Nisman, 51, was found with a gunshot wound to the head on the eve of a congressional hearing at which he was expected to accuse Kirchner of shielding Iranian officials from prosecution over a 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish center that killed 85 people. The death was initially labeled a suicide, but suspicion has fallen on Kirchner’s government of orchestrating Nisman’s murder.

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