He January 18, 2015hours before appearing before Congress to give details about his complaint for the Iran cover-up, the federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his apartment in Puerto Madero. From that moment, doubts and mystery ran through the casewho soon became involved with intelligence agents and SIDE inmates.
Ten years after death, Justice confirms that it was a murder linked to his complaint against former president Cristina Kirchner for the signing of the Memorandum with Iran for the attack on the AMIA, and advances in the analysis of the role of intelligence services in the days before and after on the night of January 18, 2015.
Nisman was found in the bathroom of his house with a bullet in the headcoming from a weapon that hours before had been provided to him by the only defendant in 10 years of case: the computer technician Diego Lagomarsino.
What is known about the Nisman case
In the investigation led by federal prosecutor Eduardo Taiano, It is concluded that Nisman was the victim of a homicide and his death “was motivated by his work in the UFI-AMIA and, specifically, by his actions linked to the Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Iran.” and progress is being made in tests that seek to determine “the identity of those who carried out the act and those who ordered it,” according to a report released on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the event.
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That January 18, at 10:32 p.m. and after a locksmith opened one of the doors of the apartment in the Le Parc towers, Nisman was found dead in the bathroom of his bedroom, shot in the head. and the weapon used at the scene.
Four days earlier, on January 14, 2015, he had returned from a particularly to present a complaint against the then president Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerofficials of his government and others implicated in the aggravated cover-up of the attack on the AMIA following the signing of the Memorandum with Iran in 2013, later declared unconstitutional by Justice.
The investigation is aimed at solving a homicideafter ruling out the hypothesis of suicide when the case was under the jurisdiction of the ordinary criminal jurisdiction, until the Supreme Court ratified the jurisdiction of the exceptional jurisdiction in September 2016, by highlighting the function performed by the prosecutor and the possible connection of is with his death.
Since then progress has been made in report irregularities at the scene of the incident that night and the early morning of Monday, January 19, 2015, the apathy of the four guards assigned to Nisman that weekend and the intelligence activity by former agents of the AFI and now, also, of the Army, is being investigated.
According to Lagomarsino’s story, Nisman asked him for the gun because he feared for his safety.
The computer technician, who worked for the prosecutor recommended by someone in intelligence, reported having received a call from Nisman asking him to go to his house, at which time, as he said, I would have asked him for a weapon.
Nisman Cause: Lagomarsino asked to annul the Gendarmerie expertise.
“However, as a result of evidentiary measures carried out within the framework of the investigation, this version of the events was distorted, since the communications were initiated by Lagomarsino himself, resulting in this action being part of the plan. for the simulation of suicide”warns the prosecution in a report released on January 8.
The investigation is making progress in unraveling the link between “inorganic” intelligence agents who sold information and what happened, and for this the prosecution requested and obtained this week an expansion of file declassification and access to “all documentation, files and/or information held or recorded by any agency that is part of the National Executive Branch regarding Nisman and his work as prosecutor of the UFI-AMIA.”
Since the case passed to Comodoro Py More than 900 statements were taken from witnesses, At least 180 computers were analyzed, 500 telephone numbers were cross-referenced and now another test of this type is underway with a hundred new subscribers, and more than 200 thousand communications were analyzed.
Regarding the irregularities of the investigation during 2024 progress was made in the indictment of former officials, including Sergio Bernithen Secretary of Security of Kirchnerism.
During the first hour and a half since the prosecutor’s body was found, the apartment was full of “entries and exits of different officials of the Argentine Naval Prefecture and the Argentine Federal Police” and “Until now, no type of justification or assignment to a specific task has been provided to support this action.”which directly threatened the preservation of the scene,” the researchers explained.
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The criminal court on duty – called by the authorities who did not resort to federal jurisdiction – intervened only at 11:55 p.m., an hour and a half after the prosecutor was found dead. another delay “that to this day has no explanation.”
That morning, the crime scene was limited to the bathroom where the prosecutor was found. and the external areas of the department were not analyzedthe common sectors and the complex as a whole.
In fact, only hours later it was noticed that in the kitchen there was a third access, a metal door that gave access to a barred space where the air conditioners were. and communicated with the neighboring department.
A footprint was found there that could not be identified. But it was determined that a foreigner resided in that neighboring apartment who worked for a company dedicated to access control services, and “with ties to the then Secretary General of the Presidency, Aníbal Fernández,” the tax report highlights.
This document also recalls a fire that weekend in the Casa Rosada that destroyed the entry and exit records, one of the evidence that Nisman requested in his complaint for the signing of the Memorandum.
But inside the apartment that the prosecutor rented, a large number of people circulated unjustifiably through the bedroom, some even sat on the bed and without any type of protection the recognition of evidentiary elements was carried out, thus risking the alteration of the fingerprints there. works. More than 80 people circulated in Nisman’s apartment that night.
The days before death
On January 14, 2015, Nisman filed a criminal complaint against the then president Cristina Kirchnerpart of his cabinet and close figures, for the alleged cover-up of the perpetrators who carried out the terrorist attack against the AMIA headquarters.
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Specifically, he denounced the existence of an agreement carried out “through both official and parallel channels, by the highest authorities of this country and the Iranian regime, with the objective of guarantee the impunity of those who were – and continue to be – those accused of having committed and masterminded the maximum terrorist attack that occurred in our territoryachieving their disassociation from the process carried out as a consequence”.
In this sense, Nisman indicated that, although the maneuver began its gestation in the period between the last months of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, it materialized on January 27, 2013 with the celebration of the Memorandum.
Thus, the prosecutor denounced that the chosen mechanism created a “Truth Commission” which ultimately allowed the impunity of the accused to be guaranteed by delegitimizing the investigation into the terrorist attack and the authorities that intervened in it, distorting the evidence produced and enabling the possibility of redirection towards new culprits.
The prosecution maintains that “today, the link between the work carried out by Nisman in the investigation of the attack on the AMIA headquarters, reflected in his opinions, and his death is evident: a death sentence hung over his head as a consequence of Interpol’s acceptance of the issuance of the red notices from the Iranian defendants.”
“In this line, a few days after publicly denouncing a plan aimed at avoiding compliance with these same circulars and achieving impunity for the accused, was murdered in his home,” the researchers conclude.
The complaint for the signing of the Memorandum will finally reach an oral trial after last December the Supreme Court of Justice rejected appeals from the accused, including the former president, and cleared the way for progress towards the debate that will be prepared during 2025 and then set a start date.
