Maximiliano Rusconi, the defence counsel of Diego Lagomarsino, has delivered on his promise to reveal “new data” on late Alberto Nisman’s “questionable behaviour” today. Rusconi said that the prosecutor withheld half of Lagomarsino’s salary every month.
Lagomarsino, who is the only person indicted in the death of AMIA special prosecutor probe, only received half of his 41,000 salary from working at the AMIA special prosecution unit headed by Nisman, Rusconi stated in a writ filed before Prosecutor Viviana Fein, in charge of the investigation.
The IT technician picked up his salary and “ran” to a nearby bank to deposit 20,000 pesos in an account that belonged to Nisman, Rusconi detailed in his writ, Página/12 newspaper reported.
The attorney promised to deliver Fein all the documents proving the deposits. “Since (judge) Sandra Arroyo Salgado forces us to explain the economic relation with (Alberto) Nisman, we make everything transparent. She has moved towards a situation that does not help the image of the late prosecutor,” he said.
Rusconi’s writ also revealed that the joint bank account that Lagomarsino shared with Nisman was in the Merrill Lynch bank in New York. Página/12 reported that the account was under Lagomarsino’s and Sara Garfunkel –Nisman’s mother- and Sandra Nisman –the prosecutor’s sister- names. But Nisman himself was legally authorised to manage the funds.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald