(Reuters) — The Argentine prosecutor found dead after accusing the president of whitewashing a deadly 1994 bombing embezzled state funds to take prostitutes on lavish vacations, the government said on Thursday, deepening the scandal over his death early this year. Alberto Nisman, found dead two months ago after accusing President Cristina Fernandez of trying to…
Iran financed the 2007 campaign of Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner, in exchange for impunity for Iranians in the AMIA bombing, a magazine is reporting. The Brazilian magazine Veja on Saturday reported that the deal, brokered by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, also provided the Iranians with nuclear know-how. “I need you to broker with Argentina for aid…
A Venezuelan-born Jewish producer making a movie about the 1994 AMIA bombing case and its special prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, said he has been threatened for his choice of topics. Stan Jakubowicz, who currently lives in Miami, will produce the movie, to be called “The Prosecutor.” “This film is not Nisman’s biopic. The film takes a…
Gerardo Sofovich, an Argentine Jewish TV host and producer, writer for theater, cinema and TV, and businessman, has died Sofovich died Sunday of internal bleeding in Buenos Aires. He had suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Knows by his nickname “El Ruso”, or the Russian, popular slang used by Jews in Argentina, Sofovich was declared…
It is widely believed, particularly outside Argentina, that special prosecutor Alberto Nisman died because he was about to expose a criminal pact between President Cristina Kirchner and the Iranian government to cover up the latter’s responsibility in the 1994 bombing of Buenos Aires’s Jewish community center. According to this riveting version of events, powerful forces…
The Argentine-Israeli journalist who first reported the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman filed a lawsuit against two state-owned companies that revealed his private data. Damian Pacther’s lawyer filed a lawsuit on Friday against the state news agency Telam and the Argentinian air carrier Aerolineas Argentinas for making public flight information indicating when he was…
Forensic tests on the body of an Argentine state prosecutor who died days after accusing President Cristina Fernandez of plotting to cover up Iran’s alleged role in a 1994 bombing indicate that he was murdered, his ex-wife said on Thursday. The mysterious circumstances surrounding Alberto Nisman’s death in January unleashed a storm of conspiracy theories….
Argentina’s president called the deadly attack on the AMIA Jewish community center in 1994 and the attack on the Israeli Embassy in 1992 “collateral damages in a war in which we had never been part, nor want to be.” The comments by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, published in an article on her website, were…
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