Tag: Alberto Nisman

• Wednesday, September 30th 2015 - 06:54 UTC

  Argentina furious with Washington over top-spy 'hiding' in the US

  

  Argentina and the US are on collision course following president Cristina Fernandez complaint of lack of cooperation from Washington, in helping locate a former Argentine spy, head of special operations, who apparently is hiding 'or being protected' in the US, and has been summoned by prosecutors in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2015 - 07:00 UTC

  New evidence questions claims that Argentine prosecutor Nisman committed suicide

  

  Another conflicting result has surfaced in the ongoing investigation into Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman's death, which remains an unsolved mystery of eight months with opinions divided as to whether he was killed or committed suicide.

• Thursday, July 30th 2015 - 07:23 UTC

  Argentina asks if Iran nuke-deal includes delisting Iranian wanted in major bomb attack in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina's foreign minister is asking U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union Foreign Affairs representative, Federica Mogherini to clarify whether Washington's nuclear deal with Iran includes removing from Interpol's list an Iranian wanted in a major bomb attack in Buenos Aires that took place in 1994 and remains unsolved.

• Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 08:48 UTC

  Judge removal from Cristina Fernandez case triggers more suspicions

  

  “If they say I committed suicide, look for the murderer. It's not my style, investigate”, said ironically Argentine judge Claudio Bonadio when he was asked how he felt after having been removed from the case looking into alleged money laundering and tax elusion in one of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner family businesses in the hotel industry, Hotesur.

• Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 08:29 UTC

  Jewish Congress criticizes “lack of progress” in investigation of 1994 AMIA bombing

  

  World Jewish Congress (WJC) CEO Robert Singer criticized on Friday “a lack of progress” in the investigation of the 1994 AMIA bombing, during the twenty first commemorations of the attack on the local Jewish community headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2015 - 06:26 UTC

  Argentine police video on Nisman's death shows experts working without latex gloves

  

  The lead investigator in the mysterious death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had accused Argentina's president of wrongdoing, came under sharp criticism on Monday with a video showing police experts working without latex gloves at the apartment where the body was found last January.

• Wednesday, May 13th 2015 - 07:37 UTC

  Nisman's criminal case against President Cristina Fernandez was buried on Tuesday

  

  The criminal case against President Cristina Fernandez was closed Tuesday when federal judges from Cassation Court accepted a prosecutor’s decision not to pursue accusations that she had conspired to shield Iranians suspected of planning the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  Argentina's Jewish community urges for Nisman's death inquiry to continue

  

  The president of Argentina's Jewish organization AMIA, president Leonardo Jmelnitzky urged for prosecutor Alberto Nisman´s suspicious death inquiry to continue, and pointed out that the institution is waiting for the confirmation of the unconstitutional nature of Iran´s Memorandum.

• Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 07:03 UTC

  Jewish organizations 'dismayed' by Timerman's 'threats and slanders'

  

  The Argentine-Israel Association, AMIA, expressed on Wednesday great dismay given the “strong threats” in the letter sent by Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman announcing he was quitting as member of the century old organization.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 01:58 UTC

  Nisman case leads to Timerman indeclinable resignation from Argentine Jewish organizations

  

  Argentine foreign minister Héctor Timerman submitted on Tuesday his “indeclinable” resignation as an affiliate of AMIA, the Argentine Israel organization that is at the center of an ongoing controversy since 1994, when it suffered Argentina's worst terrorist attack with the loss of 85 lives and over 300 injured in downtown Buenos Aires.