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Argentina: Ex-Wife of Late Prosecutor Says He Was Murdered

HeadlineMar 06, 2015

In Argentina, the ex-wife of a late prosecutor who accused the president of a cover-up has said she believes her ex-husband was murdered. The prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, was found dead a day before he was due to testify on his claims Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner helped cover up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center that killed 85 people. Investigators initially said his death appeared to be a suicide, but his ex-wife, Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, said the experts she hired concluded he was shot in the back of the head and his body moved to the bathroom.

Sandra Arroyo Salgado: “Nisman didn’t have an accident. Nisman didn’t commit suicide. He was killed, and his death is an assassination of unknown proportions that deserves answers, and in my opinion, on the part of the institutions of the Republic. Our commitment as a family, and mine also as being part of the judicial power of the nation, is to persevere so as to be able to find out the truth about what happened that day.”

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