The Argentine special prosecutor who was found dead in 2015 while investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre was murdered, a federal judge in the country ruled on December 26.
Alberto Nisman’s death “could not have been a suicide,” judge Julián Ercolini wrote in his 656-page ruling.
He said there was enough evidence to support foul play in the death of Nisman, who was discovered in his Buenos Aires apartment with a gunshot wound to the head, delivered at close range from a handgun found at his side.
Ercolini’s ruling also pointed to one suspect in the death: Diego Lagomarsino, an IT employee in Nisman’s office, who he said was a possible accessory to murder.
Nisman’s body was found on January 18, 2015, hours before he was to present evidence to Argentine lawmakers that then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner covered up Iran’s role in the attack on the Buenos Aires AMIA centre that left 85 dead and hundreds wounded.
His death was initially ruled a likely suicide.
Last month an Argentine judge on called for the arrest of Kirchner for allegedly covering up Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing. Judge Claudio Bonadio accused Fernández de Kirchner of the crime of treason as he asked lawmakers to remove the immunity from prosecution she has as a senator.
