Secretary General to the Presidency Aníbal Fernández condemned prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita’s decision to decline an invitation to brief Congress on AMIA cover-up complaint filed by late Alberto Nisman, saying the reasons he gave not to attend were “unfounded.”
“Lawmakers have the right to know about certain issues which he could appropriately explain (if he attended the hearing),” Fernández said.
Pollicita declined last Friday an invitation by the ruling Victory Front (FpV) party bloc in Congress to attend a hearing scheduled for today to provide further details on the report filed by late AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, accusing President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and top government officials of covering up Iran’s alleged involvement in the 1994 attack against the Jewish community center.
In a writ addressed to the Lower House chairman Julián Domínguez, the judicial official rejected the invitation considering the intention of MPs “can not prevail over the final purpose that the investigation must have.”
“When the opposition called Alberto Nisman (to brief the Congress on the content of his complaint) everything was great, correct, and when the ruling party calls him (Pollicita, the prosecutor who continues with late Nisman’s file) he says the reasons are not enough,” Fernández complained.
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