Alberto Fernández declares before Claudio Bonadio his statements on the memorandum with Iran

Alberto Fernández will testify before the federal judge Claudio Bonadio in the case of the memorandum with Iran, which investigates the government's alleged concealment of Cristina Kirchner to the citizens of this country accused of the terrorist attack perpetrated against the Jewish mutual in 1994, which killed 85 people.

The presidential candidate of Frente de Todos is summoned for 10 years before the federal courts of Comodoro Py. The appeal to declare relied on the journalistic statements made to Nelson Castro in 2015, a month after the complaint and the death of the prosecutor. Alberto Nisman. In this interview, he talked about "cover" and named Cristina as the "ideologist" of the alliance.

Bonadio advances with part of the investigation and it is within this framework that he cited as a witness of Fernandez, following a request from the lawyer of the relatives of the victims of the attack, Tomás Farini Duggan, complainant.

In the letter in which he asked for the quote from the former chief of staff, the lawyer indicated that Fernandez recalled in this note that he had told Nisman that "the very existence of the treaty This was the proof of concealment. "

The convocation to the current presidential candidate of Frente de Todos is produced eight days before of the 25th anniversary of the attack of July 18, 1994 against the Jewish mutual, which made 85 dead. While Nelson Castro was summoned to testify this Thursday.

Bonadio has already brought to court for "aggravated concealment" the current national senator and vice-presidential candidate and former officials such as Carlos Zannini, Oscar Parrilli and Angelina Abbona, among others. Former Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, who died late last year, was also charged. The trial is being prepared before the Federal Court of Justice 8, which has not yet set a start date.

The cause

The investigation was opened after the presentation of Nisman, representative of the AMIA tax unit, who had denounced the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between Argentina and the United States. Iran for the bombing of AMIA. raise red circulars capture against Iranian citizens accused of the attack.

Shortly after filing the lawsuit against the government, K Nisman was found dead from a bullet in the head in the bathroom of the apartment that he had rented in Puerto Madero on the 19th. January 2015.

The prosecutor accused that behind the memo hid a fallacious interest for Refueling of business relations between Argentina and Iran to exchange cereals for oil, which ultimately did not happen. For Nisman, the concealment maneuver included the attempt to abandon Interpol's red circulars that still weigh on five Iranian citizens, which, according to the prosecutor, did not happen due to the performance from the secretary general of the Ronald Noble organization.

The investigation was paralyzed because the first judge of the case, Daniel Rafecas, filed it without a felony. Then he was reopened to the Federal Supreme Court and was responsible for Bonadio. The magistrate judged the people denounced by Nisman and subjected them to an oral trial.