Claudio Savoia
06/11/2020 - 14:55
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The main journalistic investigation program of Israel, Uvdá (in Spanish: Done) will reveal this Thursday the testimony of a former intelligence agent who claims to have delivered to the prosecutor Alberto Nisman documentation regarding alleged offshore bank accounts of Cristina Kircher and her family , days before the still unclear death of the investigator of the AMIA attack
In the previews of the program -broadcast by the Jewish News Agency-, you can see an interview with the former spy of the Mossad (the Israeli secret services) Uzi Shaya, who reveals how he gave Nisman, days before his death, an envelope with documents that incriminated the then Argentine president in acts of corruption.
"I gave out some kind of information that could have caused his death," says the former spy in the excerpt from the interview. "Materials that supposedly touched all kinds of money transfers by high Argentine officials that linked them to Iran, " added the agent, who said he met Nisman in 2000, when he worked in another of Israel's secret services, the Shin Bet.
The Israeli-born Argentine journalist Ilana Dayan asks Shaya if the papers contained information about the bank accounts of then-President Kirchner and her son, to which the former spy answered without doubt: "yes."
"Was the goal to have incriminating materials on Mrs. Kirchner?" Dayan continues. "Yes. At the end of the day that I have incriminating material in the bank accounts, not only of her, but also of others, "Shaya replies in advance of the program that will be broadcast tonight.
According to the advance of the Done program, the former spy Shaya says that he contacted Nisman in January 2015, in one of the European capitals where the prosecutor was vacationing with his daughters, a trip that he interrupted unexpectedly to return to Buenos Aires, to file his complaint against Cristina Kirchner for the alleged cover-up of the AMIA attack and, days later, finding death in the bathroom of her Puerto Madero apartment.
According to the former Mossad agent, the objective of the meeting was to give Nisman an envelope with documents that allegedly proved that the president and her family had received millions of dollars from the Government of Iran in secret bank accounts in Seychelles, Cayman Islands and Cyprus. . In front of the television cameras, Shaya assures that "there was a lot of material" about the link "Cristina-Iran, Cristina's private accounts, theft of funds by Cristina. Everything they managed to find the president. "
The explosive revelation recovers a version that the investigators of the death of Nisman handled these years: that in the framework of the spy war that involved the deadly shot at the prosecutor of the AMIA case , particularly alerted the information that during his family vacations in Europe Nisman had met with an Intelligence agent and received important information, which was not incorporated in his original complaint.
"The day after his death, he was to appear before Congress to show evidence, and hoped to ratify and expand his complaint in court in the days that followed," recall sources in the investigation. The revelation of the Israeli spy would awaken that hypothesis.
After his stint in the secret services of his country, Uzi Shaya was hired by the head of the "vulture fund" Elliot, Paul Singer, to investigate data on possible corruption maneuvers by Cristina and her environment, with which to put pressure on her to Argentina paid the debt that it maintained with the "holdouts" -Elliot and other funds- that is, the holders of national debt that had not agreed to enter the swaps of 2005 and 2010. The litigation for that payment, which for years was processed in the New York court of Judge Thomas Griessa, ended with a sentence against Argentina, and the subsequent payment by the government of Mauricio Macri.
In another fragment of the television interview, journalist Dayan asks the former intelligence agent if the objective of his contact with the Argentine prosecutor was that "if Kirchner knew that Nisman knew about his bank accounts, could he understand the message and pay the debt?". Another laconic answer: "Yes".
The ex-spy's sayings are consistent with another strategy that the Elliot fund maintained during the last three years of the Cristina Kirchner government, when it managed to get another US court to approve a "discovery" process to investigate and seize 123 ghost companies linked to Lázaro Báez , with the aim of delving into them if there was money to take into account the debt recognized by the court of Griessa.
At that time, the investigation into those firms registered in the state of Nevada established that the relationship between Báez and Cristina was dark enough for the justice system to suspect that money from alleged acts of corruption of the president was kept in them , and that this silver could be seized.