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Americas|Alberto Nisman, Argentine Prosecutor, Was Killed, His Ex-Wife Says

BUENOS AIRES â The former wife of a federal prosecutor who died of a gunshot wound to the head after making explosive accusations against Argentinaâs president charged Thursday that he had been murdered â reviving a bitter debate here over the mysterious circumstances shrouding his death.

Citing a report by investigators she had hired, Sandra Arroyo Salgado, a judge and the former wife of Alberto Nisman, said at a news conference, âSuicide and an accident are totally ruled out, so we can only conclude that Nisman was without doubt the victim of a homicide.â

The official investigation into Mr. Nismanâs death, which has shaken the country and turned Argentines into armchair detectives, has yet to establish whether he shot himself or was killed.

âNothing allows me to categorically assert today that it was suicide or homicide,â Viviana Fein, the prosecutor leading the investigation, said Thursday.

Mr. Nismanâs body was found in a bathroom of his apartment in Buenos Aires on Jan. 18, hours before he was to appear before a commission to elaborate on criminal accusations he had filed against President Cristina FernÃ¡ndez de Kirchner.

In a 289-page complaint, Mr. Nisman accused Mrs. Kirchner of conspiring to shield Iranian officials from responsibility in the bombing of a Jewish community center here in 1994 that killed 85 people. The Mysterious Death of Alberto Nisman

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He contended that the Argentine government had sought the arrangement as part of a trade pact with Iran. This week, the prosecutor who revived Mr. Nismanâs case appealed a judgeâs decision to dismiss the complaint against Mrs. Kirchner.

Ms. Arroyo Salgado said the investigation she commissioned had given âscientific rigorâ to her belief that Mr. Nisman was killed. She said she hoped the report would help guide the official inquiry.

The judge overseeing that investigation will consider Ms. Arroyo Salgadoâs report when evaluating all the evidence, said Martin BÃ¶hmer, a law professor at the University of Buenos Aires.

Pointing to evidence of homicide, Ms. Arroyo Salgado said that Mr. Nismanâs body had been moved after his death, and that he had suffered âanguishâ as he died. That, she said, contradicted autopsy findings suggesting suicide. Also, the pistol used was found on the bathroom floor.

Ms. Arroyo Salgadoâs comments come amid an onslaught of claims and counterclaims about the events surrounding Mr. Nismanâs death.

A news agency under the authority of a government ministry, for instance, wrongly said this week that Mr. Nisman was drunk at the time of his death and reported that there had been an open bottle of vodka in his apartment. On Thursday, it backtracked on that account.

Mrs. Kirchner has suggested that Mr. Nisman was killed after being manipulated by forces trying to destabilize her government, and she has cast suspicion on a former spymaster who worked with the prosecutor on the bombing investigation.

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