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A Federal Court of Appeals confirmed today that late prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered as a “direct consequence” of his accusation against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and other high-ranking officials of her administration.

The Court upheld the first instance ruling issued by Federal Judge Julián Ercolini and confirmed the indictment of the law enforcement officials who were tasked with protecting Nisman at the time of his death. Diego Lagomarsino, an IT specialist who worked in the AMIA investigation and stands accused of being “necessary accessory in the homicide,” did not appeal his indictment so the Court did not have to evaluate the matter.

Lagomarsino’s indictment also included a lien worth AR $15 million, the freezing of his bank accounts and a reaffirmation of the existing court orders against the IT expert: electronic ankle bracelet, restrictions on his travel outside Argentina, and the prohibition of being away from his home for more than 24 hours.

Central to the indictment is the fact that Lagomarsino gave Nisman the weapon that fired the bullet that killed him. The IT specialist has maintained that Nisman asked for the weapon, which he has aknowledged as his, for the safety of his daughters, whereas the judge has found that the weapon was used by “third parties” to kill the AMIA prosecutor.

Further in the ruling, Court members Martín Irurzún and Leopoldo Bruglia also instructed Ercolini to continue and further the investigation. They also dismissed a request from Pablo Lanusse, the lawyer representing Nisman’s mother, to declare the murder an “assassination” and formally charge the former President. However, they clarified that even though there is no evidence that could lead them to such a decision, “nothing impedes that in the future the investigation is modified or broadened in the way intended by Dr. Lanusse.”

Nisman died a few days after filing a criminal complaint against former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and others for allegedly seeking to whitewash suspected Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center.