A Court of Cassations prosecutor today refused to take on the criminal complaint formulated by late AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, in which he accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and other government officials of covering up the identities of those responsible for the deadly bombing at the Jewish community centre.
Cassations Court prosecutor Javier De Luca dismissed the complaint, halting further investigation of the document,in which Nisman had claimed the President and Foreign minister Héctor Timerman had attempted to conceal Iranian involvement in the attacks in return for trade advantages.
«I withdraw fundamentally from the case introduced by the colleague who came before me in the session, De Luca wrote in his recommendation, referring to the request tabled by prosecutor Germán Moldes which asked the appeals tribunal to hear the case.
«In this case, even if all the possible hypotheses are poured over, in the accusation, the requirements of instructions, the appeal and the cassation request, no crime to be investigated and demonstrated can be found,» he added, explaining that the «the extensive and timely arguments of the first judge and the justices who formed the majority in the appeals court’s decision have not been refuted.»
«With every type of argument they have shown, in different ways, that there was no crime, neither planned nor carried out,» De Luca concluded.
The chamber is Argentina’s highest judicial authority for appeals, effectively leaving the criminal complaint composed by the former prosecutor in limbo. It has now been dismissed on no less than three instances.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald