BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s government asserted on Friday that an ousted spymaster was involved in the murky events around the death of the prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s chief of staff claiming that the prosecutor did not even write a complaint accusing her and top aides of subverting his inquiry.
“It contains horrors that are impossible to commit from a legal point of view,” Aníbal Fernández, the president’s chief of staff, said in a telephone interview referring to the 289-page complaint filed by Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor found dead here from a gunshot wound to the head on Sunday, the day before he was to testify before lawmakers about his accusations.
The death of Mr. Nisman, 51, who had been investigating for a decade the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in which 85 people were killed, has upended Argentina’s political establishment, exposing Mrs. Kirchner to a barrage of criticism over the prosecutor’s accusations while revealing upheaval in Argentina’s main intelligence agency.
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Shortly after the prosecutor’s move, Mr. Lagomarsino contacted her office and put himself at her disposal for more questioning, according to Télam, the state news agency.
A version of this article appears in print on January 24, 2015, on page A9 of the New York edition with the headline: Argentina Points to Spy After Lawyer’s Eerie Death. Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe
