An Argentinian judge has dismissed prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s accusations against Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Nisman, who was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head last month hours before he was to present controversial findings before a Congressional Committee, accused Kirchner of conspiring with Iran to obstruct a probe into the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center. In an allegation he filed before his death, Nisman also found that Kirchner had directed her Minister of Foreign Affairs, Héctor Timerman, to remove Iran from the case in hope that it would strengthen trade of Argentinian grain for Iranian oil.
The New York Times reports that Judge Daniel Rafecas ruled Thursday that the criminal allegations put forward by Nisman before his death were not sufficient to open an investigation into Kirchner. The allegations did not “minimally hold up,” according to Judge Rafecas’ 63-page report.
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