Family: Independent review shows Argentine prosecutor was ‘murdered’

The Argentine prosecutor who died mysteriously while pursuing a case against President Cristina Kirchner was “assassinated,” his ex-wife has said, after commissioning an unofficial probe. Alberto Nisman, who accused Kirchner of shielding Iranian officials from prosecution over the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre, “was killed, his death is an assassination,” Sandra Arroyo Salgado, a judge who is his ex-wife and mother of his two daughters, said on Thursday. Viviana Fein, the state prosecutor investigating Nisman’s death, said she would study the evidence put forward by Arroyo Salgado’s team

To this day, nothing allows me to definitively say that it was homicide or suicide. Nothing.

Viviana Fein, the lead investigator

According to result of the private probe, Nisman did not reportedly die instantly, and that “he had agonised and suffered to some degree,” Salgado was quoted as saying. Fernandez has branded as “absurd” Nisman’s accusation that she sought to whitewash his investigation into the truck-bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center 21 years ago, and has said rogue state spies were behind his death. Iran has consistently denied it was involved in the bomb attack, which killed 85 people.

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