May 24, 2026 | Article on X (formerly Twitter) | Toby Dershowitz | @TobyDersh

1. NEW: Former Argentine prosecutor Viviana Fein has been charged with concealing evidence in the 2015 death of AMIA investigator Alberto Nisman. She faces up to 3 years in prison if convicted. The judge ordered a preventive freeze of 15 million pesos on Fein’s personal assets.
2. Nisman was found shot dead on January 18, 2015, just hours before he was to present evidence to lawmakers accusing then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and a dozen of her cronies of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 AMIA bombing, which killed 85 people.
3. Fein had admitted that investigators used toilet paper from the apartment’s bathroom to wipe down parts of the .22 caliber Bersa pistol to find its serial number. This severely compromised potential fingerprint and external DNA evidence.
4. Judge Julián Ercolini found that Fein allowed some eighty people to enter Nisman’s apartment, trampling around without protective gear and other controls, in the hours after his death, potentially contaminating or destroying evidence. Fein denies the charges.
5. Judge Julián Ercolini found that Fein allowed some eighty people to enter Nisman’s apartment, trampling around without protective gear and other controls, in the hours after his death, potentially contaminating or destroying evidence. Fein denies the charges.
6. A 2017 forensic report concluded Nisman was assassinated for his role in investigating the AMIA bombing and calling out Iran for its role. Fein, who her critics say tilted the Nisman murder investigation to politically shield the Kirchner administration from murder suspicions, initially said she believed he committed suicide, a critical backdrop to the new judicial development.
7. Argentina’s Supreme Court ordered Kirchner to stand trial in connection with an MOU with Iran, which Nisman said was aimed at absolving Iran of its role in the deadly bombing. The trial has not yet been scheduled. The former president is serving a 6-year sentence under house arrest in a separate corruption case. She has a lifetime ban on holding public office again.

Alberto Nisman may no longer be physically present, but many are determined to see that justice is served in his murder case, in the alleged attempt by Kirchner and her cronies to white wash Iran’s role in the AMIA bombing, and in holding the Islamic Republic of Iran accountable in the AMIA terrorist attack, the deadliest bombing in Argentina’s history.