Argentine investigator says Nisman death points to murder

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Yahoo News:

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine prosecutor who died last year just days after accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran's alleged role in the bombing of a Jewish center was apparently murdered, an official investigating the case said on Thursday.

 

Alberto Nisman was found shot dead in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment 13 months ago. The case had been classified as a suicide, an idea Nisman's family and friends dismissed as absurd. Polls show most Argentines believe his death was a homicide.

 

"The evidence up to this point supports the hypothesis that Alberto Nisman was the victim of the crime of homicide," Ricardo Saenz, district attorney for the Buenos Aires Criminal Appeals Court, wrote in a recommendation that the case be handed over to federal authorities and pursued as a murder investigation.

 

It was the first time that a judicial authority had classified the death as a homicide. The move came amid a raft of changes made since President Mauricio Macri was inaugurated in December.

 

Macri pledged during the campaign to get to the bottom of the Nisman mystery and he promised justice when he met last month with Nisman's daughters, who are plaintiffs in the case.

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He got a fatal dose of investigative illness.