The IT security expert was one of the last to see Nisman alive.
Nisman was found dead in his apartment days after filing a report accusing the country’s top leaders of covering up Iran’s involvement in Argentina’s worst terrorist attack. It looked like a suicide, but now even the government has doubts that is the truth.
So when Lagomarsino decided to address reporters on Wednesday, it should have been an unequivocally illuminating event. But like so much of the information surrounding Nisman’s mysterious death, seeds of doubt had already been planted.
In addition to being an assistant to Nisman, Lagomarsino is the one who gave the prosecutor the gun that ended his life and is the only person charged in connection with his death.
Lagomarsino faces up to six years in prison if convicted of providing Nisman with the gun.
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Many of the small details in the case fuel the conspiracy fire.
In the days after Nisman’s body was found, state media published what it described as a social media message from Nisman to friends explaining that he had to cut a vacation to Spain short so he could return to Argentina and file the report against the President.
On Wednesday, the prosecutor investigating Nisman’s death, Viviana Fein, told reporters that there is no evidence that Nisman suddenly changed his plans. Records show that his return from Spain had been planned weeks before.
There have also been reports linking Lagomarsino to the former intelligence agent Stiusso. The IT man’s lawyer denied that the two knew each other.
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