Argentine Prosecutor Found Dead Hours Before Due to Give Court Testimony

[Indy Anna]

Buenos Aires: An Argentine prosecutor was found dead just hours before he had been due to give what was expected to be damning testimony against President Cristina Kirchner, in what appears to have been a suicide, officials said on Monday.

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Investigators should look at whether Mr Nisman was under pressure from anybody, and who the gun belonged to, local media reports quoted Ms Fein as saying. The weapon was not Mr Nisman's, the reports said.

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http://www.smh.com.au/world/prosecu...d-his-inquiry-found-dead-20150119-12ttpm.html


Why would he commit suicide just before such and important court case? Seems there is a lot of division about whether it's truly a suicide. While some are hasty to rule it a suicide, others claim it was an assassination. Several prominent Argentinian figures had been implicated by Alberto Nisman.

 

[Indy Anna]

But Ms Fein said she was investigating whether Mr Nisman may have killed himself after receiving threats.

"We could talk of a suicide, the body was neither beaten nor mistreated, but I don't rule out instigation," she said.

"We are calling his death 'suspicious'," she added.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30895518

 

[Indy Anna]

Alberto Nisman's Warning About Iran

Nisman spent the past decade seeking justice for the victims of the 1994 terrorist bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center, which killed 85 people and wounded many more. Nisman compiled a massive case, accusing Iran and its Lebanese terrorist affiliate, Hezbollah, of the attack. He indicted a member of Hezbollah and a number of former high-ranking Iranians officials. And he found himself increasingly at cross-purposes with the machinations of Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/claudiarosett/2015/01/20/alberto-nismans-warning-about-iran/


Some people implicating involvement by Iran.

 

[Indy Anna]

A locksmith called to the flat of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who had accused both the president and the Iranians of covering up the country's worst terrorist attack, has said that a door to his apartment was left open.

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The third door linked Mr Nisman's flat to a neighbouring apartment, which was rented by a foreign national - not thought to be Iranian. Clarin said that in the narrow corridor between the two doors, blocked by an air conditioning unit, police had found a fingerprint and a footprint.

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Ms Fein, the investigator, said that there were no traces of gunpowder on his right hand - although that was inconclusive. And Mr Nisman's friends have all been quick to say that he was excited by the opportunity to present his case - the fruit of over a decade of investigation.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...locksmith-as-secret-third-entrance-found.html

 

[Indy Anna]

“The president and her foreign minister took the criminal decision to fabricate Iran’s innocence to sate Argentina’s commercial, political and geopolitical interests,” Nisman told reporters last week. (A number of Argentine officials deny the claims.) Nisman also delivered another noteworthy quote last week: "I might get out of this dead," he told a journalist.

BBM

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http://www.theatlantic.com/internat...IA-Prosecutor-Alberto-Nismans-Suicide/384750/

 

[Indy Anna]

Investigators said there were three possible ways to enter the apartment:

• Main door: operated by an electronic code and found locked
• Service door: according to the locksmith, this was closed but unlocked. The key was in the lock inside the apartment
• Air conditioning tunnel: narrow passageway housing air conditioning units linking Mr Nisman's apartment to that of a neighbour

According to the investigators, there were recent footprints and a fingerprint inside the air conditioning passageway. They are being tested.

Viviana Fein had previously said there were no traces of a burglary or signs of any of the doors being forced open.

Read more at ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30937055

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Good article.....thanks Indy Anna!

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

President: Argentine prosecutor's death not a suicide

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/americas/argentina-prosecutor-alberto-nisman-death/index.html

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Argentinian president Kirchner claims prosecutor who died a day before he was due to accuse her of covering up a Jewish bombing was murdered to 'implicate' her

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tor-murdered-implicate-her.html#ixzz3PdOdIRLp

 

[Indy Anna]

Reporter covering prosecutor's death leaves Argentina
By Associated Press
3:15 P.M.JAN. 24, 2015

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A journalist credited with being the first to report the gunshot death of federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman has left Argentina because of fear for his safety.

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http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/jan/24/reporter-covering-prosecutors-death-leaves/

 

[Indy Anna]

Alberto Nisman's death 'responsibility of pro-Kirchner intelligence operatives', claims ex-official

A cell of Argentinian presidential loyalists in the country's intelligence service organised the killing of a prosecutor investigating Iran's role in the bombing of Jewish centre, according to a former senior official in the agency.

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The explosive claim came as Mrs Kirchner called on the country's congress to dissolve the intelligence services in the wake of the death on January 18 of Alberto Nisman.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...telligence-operatives-claims-ex-official.html

 

[Indy Anna]

This is sounding more and more suspicious. Nisman borrowed a gun because he didn't trust LE to protect him. With good reason, maybe.

Mr Nisman's security chief has been suspended and is under investigation along with two other members of his guard.

Ruben Benitez had co-ordinated [sic] a security team of 10 officers to protect Mr Nisman.

Police say the team broke with protocol by remaining out of contact with Mr Nisman for several hours on the day of his death and failing to report to their superiors.

Read more at ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31033096

 

[Fifth Avenue]

It looks extremely suspicious as arrest warrant was drafted. However judge dismissed the case against president Fernandez de Kirschner which seems to exonerate her.

BREAKING: Draft of Arrest Warrant for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutor’s Home.
http://t.co/cpGT3pkE6R http://t.co/uds1w1imTg

An Argentinian judge has refused to pursue allegations that president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner conspired with Iran to cover up the nation’s deadliest terrorist attack – raising the prospect of the case dying along with the prosecutor who presented it.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rto-nismans-case-against-argentinas-president






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[Snoopster]

There is no shortage of corruption in Argentina.

About a year ago I was in Buenos Aires and Cristina was finally back in town from holiday, to give a major speech. (She had been absent for months, even though the country was in economic crisis.) There were hundreds (literally) of buses lining the downtown streets. They had brought rural folks from outside the city to a cheering rally for Cristina. Our hosts told us that these people were generally unemployed and were paid to come to the city, provided food, etc. The crowds were very large and they brought the city to a standstill. It was an incredible sight to see.

 

[Indy Anna]

There is no shortage of corruption in Argentina.

About a year ago I was in Buenos Aires and Cristina was finally back in town from holiday, to give a major speech. (She had been absent for months, even though the country was in economic crisis.) There were hundreds (literally) of buses lining the downtown streets. They had brought rural folks from outside the city to a cheering rally for Cristina. Our hosts told us that these people were generally unemployed and were paid to come to the city, provided food, etc. The crowds were very large and they brought the city to a standstill. It was an incredible sight to see.

Giving money and food to the poor is a nice gesture, but using money and food to entice the poor and hungry to appear as supporters ..... isn't that kind of like tying a steak around your neck to get the dog to play with you? :waitasec: :beagle:


I'm really not surprised that more continues to be revealed about the whole ordeal. I think someone had Nisman assassinated because of what he was about to expose in court. And, I think whoever's behind it will eventually realize that assassinating Nisman will only lead to their downfall because now Argentina is an open stage playing before the entire world. Everything will fall into place piece by piece, and there will be no hiding it since all eyes are on Argentina. I don't care how many bigwigs are involved: they are going to start tumbling like dominoes. JMO

 

[Indy Anna]

Draft of Arrest Request for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutor’s Home

<snip> The 26-page document, which was found in the garbage at Mr. Nisman’s apartment, also sought the arrest of Héctor Timerman, Argentina’s foreign minister.

<snip> Normally, a prosecutor in Argentina seeks an arrest out of concern that the people charged with crimes will try to corrupt the investigation or flee the country, according to Susana Ciruzzi, a professor of criminal law at the University of Buenos Aires who knew Mr. Nisman.

But in this case, some legal experts suspect that Mr. Nisman decided against requesting the arrest of Mrs. Kirchner because such a move would have been viewed as a political attack on the president in a case that has already polarized the nation.

<snip> Legal experts emphasized that the draft found in Mr. Nisman’s apartment was not valid in an Argentine court of law, and needed more than just the prosecutor’s wishes to move forward in the legal system.

“It is not signed; it is a draft,” said María del Carmen Besteiro, head of the Buenos Aires Association of Lawyers. “Nisman was a prosecutor. The one who has to make the accusation and who has to decide it is a judge.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/w...sman-arrest-warrant-cristina-de-kirchner.html


If Nisman had tossed the draft in the trash, makes me wonder, was someone unduly worried about the evidence Nisman would present in court and the recommendations he would make? Again, I think someone has caused more damage to their own reputations, political careers, and ultimate freedom than Nisman would have.

 

[wfgodot]

"I might get out of this dead" -- great case, one with the classic question "How far will this go? attached.

 

[Fifth Avenue]

There is no shortage of corruption in Argentina.

About a year ago I was in Buenos Aires and Cristina was finally back in town from holiday, to give a major speech. (She had been absent for months, even though the country was in economic crisis.) There were hundreds (literally) of buses lining the downtown streets. They had brought rural folks from outside the city to a cheering rally for Cristina. Our hosts told us that these people were generally unemployed and were paid to come to the city, provided food, etc. The crowds were very large and they brought the city to a standstill. It was an incredible sight to see.

There is probably more corruption and mismanagement than anyone can handle in all over Latin America.

Didn't Kirschner claim she had cancer to rally her base, supporters sat outside hospital 24/7 waiting for any news, then doctors said she had no cancer?

All while late Hugo Chavez claimed America infected him with cancer. As plausible as his another claim that capitalism destroyed life in Mars.
Latin America leaders are very eccentric indeed (mildly put).




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[Indy Anna]

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Fabiana Palmaghini, the judge in charge of the investigation into the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, has confirmed a new DNA profile has been found at the victim’s apartment, ordering further tests to identify whose sample it belongs to.

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/ar...nfirms-dna-profile-different-to-nismans-found


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Last week, it was reported that investigators are trying to track down former intelligence chief Antonio Stiusso in connection with Nisman's death, but are unsure if he is even in the country.....Fired during a December shake-up of the SI, Stiusso had helped Nisman with his investigation of the bombing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...toppling-Cristina-Kerchner-says-official.html


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The confusion surrounding the mysterious death of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman continues to deepen as a second test released yesterday revealed that that no gunpowder was found on his hands – once again leading many to theorize that the 51-year-old lawyer could have been murdered to cover-up his knowledge of the 1994 bombing a Buenos Aires Jewish center.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/ne...traces-gun-residue-on-argentinian-prosecutor/


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Nisman's startling death last month left Argentina, a country for which I have great fondness, in turmoil. Sadly, that's not unusual. The history of Argentina, and much of Latin America, is a chronicle of skullduggery: assassinations, massacres, scandals, frame-ups, convenient "accidents," staged "suicides." The Nisman case grows out of a labyrinth of lies and intrigue where almost everything seems possible except establishing facts, and almost nothing is what it seems.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theworldpost/

 

[Fifth Avenue]

BREAKING!

Argentina's President de Kirschner charged by prosecutor in alleged deal with Iran to coverup 1994 bombing killing 85.

http://t.co/iGCcJyX8Pm



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