Lucia Salinas
01/16/2021 19:56
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 01/16/2021 7:56 PM
Why was there an explosive exchange of calls and messages between AFI agents and the Army commanded by César Milani during the hours when Alberto Nisman was dead without anyone knowing?
It is the question that the prosecutor's office in charge of Eduardo Taiano will seek to answer from February,
when it summons almost 90 spies to give testimonial statements
in the framework of the case investigating the death of the then head of the UFI AMIA.
Six years after the start of the file,
the investigators reiterate that it was a homicide
.
Some 500 testimonies from residents of Le Parc, more than 26,000 archive images, 45,000 calls and a technological expertise are part of the completed tests.
An ongoing package of measures will lead the case towards its closure and request for elevation to trial.
There are a total of
24,000 pages
that make up the file in which judge Julián Ercolini together with prosecutor Eduardo Taiano, determined in the first instance that Alberto Nisman was the victim of a homicide.
The Buenos Aires Federal Chamber went further, and asked to investigate
whether the crime was not related to his activity as a prosecutor and his recent complaint
against the president of the Nation, Cristina Kirchner.
Three days earlier, she had argued in an opinion that she had to be investigated for covering up the AMIA attack after the signing of the Pact of Understanding with Iran.
In that resolution, Judge Ercolini indicated that "there was a plan that was devised to end the life of Nisman" and indicated that "he was killed with Diego Lagomarsino's weapon."
Without leaving any doubts, he wrote: "
The death of prosecutor Nisman was not due to suicide
and would have been produced by third parties and maliciously." Six years later,
the authors remain unknown
and it is being investigated whether they respond to the world of the services of intelligence.
Under this line of argument, the prosecution advances on the role of the agents of the Federal Intelligence Agencies and a group that are already separated from the AFI.
With a battery of test measures, the investigation led by Taiano seeks to find those responsible for the homicide that continues to impact the political world and that transcended the country's borders.
That is why the intelligence services are being tracked, due to an "explosion of calls prior to the death of Nisman, calls near Lagomarsino's house on January 17 and the proximity of other services in the Le Parc area. ".
That morning, when Alberto Nisman's death had not yet been public, there were countless
phone calls between spies
.
An investigation carried out by the specialized area of the Federal Police crossing cell lines linked to the intelligence services revealed "significant data."
There were
a total of 45,000 calls
that were under analysis and whose result is in the hands of the prosecution.
In those lines assigned to lower-ranking agents, they appear calling their superiors, and these in turn to the top of the AFI.
There were calls to
Jaime Stiuso
, the former powerful SIDE agent who had been fired a few months earlier.
But there were also calls made to Stiuso's internal enemy,
Fernando Pocino
, the former Director of the Interior Meeting of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI).
The analysis took as a cut-off date from the moment Alberto Nisman filed the complaint against Cristina Kirchner, on January 14, until the 18 when he was found dead.
Comparing the movement of these lines a year earlier, it was observed that
during the twelve months prior to that day there were never that level of calls in the vicinity of the Le Parc building. There
were, by far
, more than a hundred communications in a few hours.
This has another point under analysis.
The interweaving of the thousands of calls showed that that Sunday, early in the morning
in the Puerto Madero area there were between five and ten intelligence agents.
None of the movements of the spies and former spies exposes "much normality,"
judicial sources
told
Clarín
.
Not everything is limited to the world of spies, the set of calls analyzed also had other recipients.
Many of the agents who will be summoned appear calling
Juan Martín Mena
, then Oscar Parrilli's right-hand man in the AFI and
current Deputy Minister of Justice
.
Something that the prosecution will also seek to clarify are
Oscar Parrilli's calls to secretaries of the Presidency that day.
Other ongoing tests
On the other hand, the prosecution has already finished taking
500 testimonial statements from all the residents of the Le Parc complex.
All were conclusive in the same sense:
The place "was not insurmountable
.
"
There were many points that the security cameras did not register, and about eight cameras were not in operation that January 2015. On the other hand, the neighbors themselves exposed having been victims of various acts of insecurity without anyone noticing what happened .
"It is not an airport or NASA, it is a place where people could enter without being seen," said one of the neighbors when declaring.
This measure is accompanied by a bank of 26,000 images of people and vehicle patents that entered and left Le Parc that weekend.
It is a file to check any suspicions that may arise about strange movements in that period.
Ahead is to conclude the receipt of
testimonial statements to personnel of the security company of the place
, as well as the response of the letter sent to Israel regarding the witness who said he had met with Nisman to deliver documents related to Cristina Kirchner.
An expertise is still being carried out on another set of telephones that are linked to the AFI, provided by the intelligence agency during the macrista administration.
And taking a step further,
the prosecution still finds "inconsistencies in the explanations of Diego Lagomarsino
(prosecuted as a necessary participant in the crime) regarding how he met Alberto Nisman."
For this reason, the prosecutor Taiano will ask for a series of testimonies to
unravel the beginning of that link
that has its leg in the security forces.
The prosecution continues to advance in the file, under the premise they arrived at on December 26, 2017, when the indictment was issued against Diego Lagomarsino as a necessary participant in the homicide, and against two of the four custodians also indicated as
accessories: Rubén Benítez and Luis Miño,
accused of not having "adequately protected" the then prosecutor.
The security device was in charge of the last days of Nisman's life, who, according to justice,
was murdered
.