Tag: Alberto Nisman

• Friday, December 6th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentine Supreme Court says CFK must stand trial for AMIA bombing cover-up

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) ruled Thursday that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and others should stand trial for signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran, thus upholding a previous decision by a Federal Court of Appeals.

• Thursday, August 25th 2022 - 19:52 UTC

  Alberto Fernandez: “Nisman committed suicide, I hope Luciani does not do something like that”; the prosecutor replied

  

  The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, said an unfortunate phrase in a television interview while trying to defend Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) from the corruption accusation for the so-called Causa Vialidad (Road Cause). The statement generated repudiation from the Judiciary, the opposition and an immediate political impact.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Seven years after, death of Argentine special prosecutor and alleged Iran connection remain unresolved

  

  On a rainy evening Tuesday 18th January, dozens toured the streets of Buenos Aires in memory of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of his death, a case which remains unresolved by Argentine justice. With umbrellas, dressed in black some carrying candles, flashlights, and flowers, the march reached the Le Parc flats complex, in a posh area of Buenos Aires, where Nisman was found dead with a shot in the head, and an investigation that still has to decide if it was a homicide or suicide.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 04:35 UTC

  Argentina: Relatives of AMIA bombing victims to appeal court ruling dismissing charges against CFK

  

  Relatives of the victims of the 1994 bombing of the Israeli Social Welfare Association of Argentina (AMIA) Friday announced they would appeal a court ruling issued Thursday in which charges against former President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) were dismissed.

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Iran Memorandum Case against former Argentine President CFK dismissed

  

  An Argentine Federal Court Thursday dismissed all charges against current Vice President and former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for the signing of Memorandum of Understanding with Iran to investigate the 1992 bombing of Israel's Embassy in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentina: Jewish community call for truth and justice on sixth anniversary of the killing of prosecutor Alberto Nisman

  

  The main community center serving Argentina’s Jews on Monday called for “truth” and “justice” to prevail in the case of Alberto Nisman, on the sixth anniversary of the federal prosecutor’s assassination.

• Sunday, June 14th 2020 - 14:04 UTC

  New version of Nisman's death supplied by ex Mossad agent directly involves Cristina Fernandez

  

  Israel’s Mossad provided the intelligence information that enabled Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman to prove that Iran orchestrated the 1994 AMIA terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed, an Israeli TV documentary claimed.

• Tuesday, February 4th 2020 - 17:48 UTC

  The Argentine judge who prosecuted vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is dead

  

  Argentine federal judge Claudio Bonadio, notorious for bringing cases involving the former president and current vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), died Tuesday morning at his home it was reported.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Netanyahu praises Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday congratulated Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 07:33 UTC

  Nisman's homage turns into allegations of an impunity pact between president Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner

  

  Thousands marched in downtown Buenos Aires, on Saturday. demanding an answer to the still unsolved mysterious death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found with a gunshot to the head, exactly five years ago ( January 18).