The Tower
Argentine Judge Reopens Case Against Ex-President Over AMIA Bombing Cover-Up
by Staff
August 10, 2016

An Argentine judge has ordered the reopening of an investigation into former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner over her alleged efforts to cover-up Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Judge Claudio Bonadio asked fellow judge Daniel Rafecas, who closed the case last year, to turn over the relevant files after the latter refused to restart the investigation into Kirchner. The case was compiled by federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head hours before he was scheduled to present his evidence to a congressional committee. READ MORE