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Argentine Judge Reopens Case Against Ex-President Over AMIA Bombing Cover-Up

by TheTower.org Staff |

An Argentine judge has ordered the reopening of an investigation into former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner over her alleged efforts to cover-up Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

Judge Claudio Bonadio asked fellow judge Daniel Rafecas, who closed the case last year, to turn over the relevant files after the latter refused to restart the investigation into Kirchner.

The case was compiled by federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head hours before he was scheduled to present his evidence to a congressional committee.

Bonadio is also presiding over a probe into Argentina’s former foreign minister, Héctor Timerman. Nisman formally accused both Kirchner and Timerman of making a secret deal with Iran to cover up its complicity in the AMIA bombing just four days before he died.

In Alberto Nisman’s Secret Recordings, Revealed, which was published in the July 2015 issue of The Tower Magazine, contributing editor Eamonn MacDonagh explained that over 40,000 wiretaps “provided the basis for the formal denuncia [complaint] made by Nisman in January 2015 concerning a criminal conspiracy involving President Fernández de Kirchner, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, and other senior officials, aimed at covering up the AMIA massacre.”

In subsequent recordings of conversations between Timerman and leaders of Argentina’s Jewish community that came to light last year, the former foreign minister was heard acknowledging that Iran was behind the AMIA bombing. MacDonagh observed that these recordings supported “Nisman’s thesis that the Memorandum was a sham, designed to protect those guilty of the AMIA Massacre.”

Though Nisman’s death remains unsolved, an Argentinian prosecutor concluded in January that he was indeed “a victim of homicide.” An appeals court referred the case to a federal court at the end of March, meaning that Nisman’s death is now being treated as a murder.

[Photo: Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social ]

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