Alberto Nisman: Prosecutor who accused Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Iranian bomb cover-up found dead

‘An Argentinian prosecutor who accused the country’s president of orchestrating a cover-up of the investigation into a notorious bomb attack on a Jewish community centre has been found dead – hours before he was to testify at a closed-door hearing.

Reports said that Alberto Nisman, 51, who had been examining the 1994 blast that left 85 people dead and over which Iranian officials have accused, was found dead in his apartment in Buenos Aires. A small calibre handgun was found next to his body by security guards, alerted on Sunday afternoon by Mr Nisman’s mother who said he was not answering his phone or else the door of his 13th floor flat.’

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