Nisman files to feature in new probe of Iranian role in AMIA bombing

A federal judge in Argentina agrees to transfer the case file of late prosecutor Alberto Nisman to a judge presiding over a new investigation into an alleged Argentine government plan to whitewash Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish center.

Judge Daniel Rafecas will send Nisman’s information to Judge Claudio Bonadio, who is looking into the country’s Jewish former foreign minister, Hector Timerman, for his alleged role in the plan. Bonadio also is investigating ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for an alleged 2015 government securities fraud scheme.

Rafecas, the judge who originally rejected the Nisman accusations, ruled in March that no new evidence has come to light and that the case should remain closed due to the absence of a proven criminal offense. But prosecutor Eduardo Taiano ruled a week ago that the accusations made by Nisman against Argentina’s previous government must be reopened in response to a request made by two fathers of the AMIA center bombing victims, who were accepted as plaintiffs in the case by Bonadio.

— JTA