Prosecutor Germán Moldes has blasted the decision of colleague Javier de Luca to dismiss in the Court of Cassation the cover-up accusation filed by late AMIA lead investigator Alberto Nisman, accusing the official of trying to bury the investigation against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
«I warned three weeks ago that there were delaying maneuvres in places, maneuvres which slowed down the filing in the Appeals Court in order to give [De Luca] time to enter,» Moldes fired in a radio interview.
«It was already decided that he was going to put the final nail in the coffin. He was the grave-digger.»
De Lucas yesterday released a 27-page document explaining his reasons for dismissing Nisman’s allegations, which accuse CFK and other leading government figures of covering up the involvement of Iranian citizens in the AMIA bombing of 1994 through the Memorandum of Understanding.
The prosecutor agreed with the rulings of judge Daniel Rafecas, who originally rejected the case and whose judgement was upheld in the Appeals Court by majority decision. Like his peers, De Luca held that there was no evidence of any crime being committed in Nisman’s text, pointing out that Congress votes and international treaties could not be dubbed illegal.
But for Moldes, Legitimate Justice member De Lucas had another agenda in dismissing the case.
«Legitimate Justice has one goal: securing impunity for officials accused of corruption,» he raged, while calling the prosecutor’s dismissal «a con».
«I was 100 percent sure this would happen, I had no doubt. You did not have to do more than look at how this group which wrongly carries the name Legitimate Justices conducts itself.»
Source: Buenos Aires Herald