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Key moment in the investigation into the death of Alberto Nisman: the statements of the spies conclude

2023-02-12T20:40:41.143Z


Prosecutor Eduardo Taiano resumed the batch of testimonials to AFI spies, which will culminate this month. He will then evaluate the contributions with Judge Ercolini before resolving the next step in the case.


More than 50 spies and former spies from the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) have already testified as witnesses in the case investigating

the crime of former prosecutor Alberto Nisman

.

Last week the latest statements to be taken were reactivated and will conclude -at the end of February- with

a crucial stage of the investigation

: the

role of the intelligence services

.

Relevant data, some contractions exposed on the last hours of life of the former head of the UF-AMIA, everything will be analyzed to resolve the next instance of the case carried out by Judge Julián Ercolini.

Federal prosecutor

Eduardo Taiano

will put an end to this stage of the investigation, which focused on intelligence services, in two weeks.

The first thing that was striking about this part of the investigation was

the explosive exchange of telephone calls and messages

between agents of the AFI and the Army.

That was the first trigger to start an extensive round of witness statements.

The confirmation that Nisman was dead was known on Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 11:45 p.m., but that same day, from 8 in the morning,

intense communications traffic

had begun -mostly through Nextel-

between the main bosses and former bosses. civil and military intelligence

.

Taiano analyzes at least "

one million phone calls, WhatsApp messages and emails

" with the assistance of Federal Police technicians who cross them and look for common patterns that can eventually serve the prosecutor.

According to judicial sources confided to

Clarín

, some testimonies "

made it possible to order the hours before and after

" Nisman's death to understand what the telephone calls were in response to, as well as the messages that were exchanged.

But during these long months of listening to AFI spies and ex-spies,

some contradictions were exposed

.

Some of the operational agents denied having spoken on the morning of that Sunday in January 2015 with their bosses, despite the fact that they appear in the expert report on call records that

Clarín

released exclusively.


Why is the spy trail important?

The Prosecutor's Office hypothesizes that the "explosion of calls

prior to the death of Nisman, calls near the home of computer assistant Diego Lagomarsino on January 17, and the proximity of other services in the Le Parc area" were not normal

.

The

chronology was striking

for the researchers.

That morning, when Nisman's death had not yet been made public, there were endless phone calls between spies.

An examination carried out by the specialized area of ​​the Federal Police intersecting cell lines linked to intelligence services revealed "significant data."

In those lines assigned to agents of a lower category, they appear calling their superiors, and these in turn to the top of the AFI.

There were

calls to Jaime Stiuso,

the powerful former SIDE agent who had been fired a few months before.

But there were also calls to Stiuso's internal enemy,

Fernando Pocino

, the former Director of Internal Meetings of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI).

There is another point that prosecutor Taiano seeks to unravel and it is whether the AFI authorities, when the investigation began in January 2015, which was initially in the hands of

prosecutor Viviana Fein

, ordered a group of agents to

spy on the income and expenses of the Prosecutor's

Office

This, according to sources in the case, was

intended to find out if Jaime Stiuso entered there.

A question arises in this regard: if the former head of what used to be the SIDE in mid-January 2015 was no longer in the country, why was a "guard" kept outside the Fein prosecutor's office.

Was

someone looking to control the course of the investigation?

”, is a question that prosecutor Taiano seeks to clarify.

The analysis of the calls that put the spies under the magnifying glass covers from the moment that Nisman filed the complaint against Cristina Kirchner, on January 14, 2015, until Sunday the 18th when he was found dead in his apartment.

Comparing the movement of these lines a year earlier, it was observed that during the twelve months prior to that day there had never been that level of calls in the vicinity of the Le Parc building. There were, by far, more than a hundred calls in a few hours.

Once the operational agents who spoke to each other on the morning of January 18, 2015 - about 15 hours before the discovery of Nisman's body was publicly known - finish declaring, prosecutor Taiano will call the then head

of the AFI and current senator of the Frente de Todos Oscar Parrilli

and his former number two and current

Vice Minister of Justice, Juan Martín Mena

, among other leaders,

judicial sources informed

Clarín .

This responds to the fact that the interweaving of the thousands of calls showed that on the day of Nisman's death, early in the morning, there were between five and ten intelligence agents in the Puerto Madero area.

None of the movements of the spies and ex-spies exposes "a lot of normality,"

judicial sources told

Clarín .

In addition to the operational spies, the set of calls analyzed also had other recipients.

Many of the agents who have already testified called Mena

, then Parrilli's right-hand man at the AFI headquarters and current vice-minister of Justice.

In December of last year and under reservation,

Stiuso returned to testify before the prosecutor

in the case after knowing some transcendences of the testimonials of former spies and agents in office.

As Clarín

recounted

, in that presentation he left a clear message: "

Don't use me as a cut

" about the reasons for those feverish calls and the operative agents doing illegal espionage on the street.

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Source: clarin

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