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New Phone Forensics in Nisman Case Contradict Ex-Prosecutor's Testimony

Recent telephone forensics in the prosecutor Alberto Nisman death case contradict the testimony of former Attorney General Alejandra Gils Carbó. Data reveals numerous contacts between her and the government at critical investigation moments, strengthening the theory of coordinated interference.


New Phone Forensics in Nisman Case Contradict Ex-Prosecutor's Testimony

Buenos Aires, January 18, 2026 – New telephone forensics incorporated into the case of the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman directly contradict the 2017 judicial testimony of the former Attorney General of the Nation, Alejandra Gils Carbó, who had assured that she had not maintained any contact with the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after the prosecutor's death. On the morning of January 19, 2015, Gils Carbó made three consecutive calls to that ministry, one of which lasted over twelve minutes. That same day, in the early hours of the morning, Minister Alak and then-Security Secretary Sergio Berni, with the telephone participation of the president, drafted the government's first official statement, which suggested that the door to Nisman's apartment was locked from the inside. On that day, Judge Ariel Lijo received the complaint filed by Nisman against the then-president for alleged cover-up in the AMIA case, which would later be dismissed by Judge Daniel Rafecas, reopened by the Federal Chamber, and finally elevated to an oral trial, in which Cristina Fernández de Kirchner remains prosecuted. According to investigators, the call pattern coincides with critical moments of the investigation and reinforces the hypothesis of a coordinated interference from different state sectors to steer the case towards the suicide thesis. In her testimony before the Justice system, the former Attorney General denied having maintained ties with the Executive and even affirmed having no personal or indirect contact with then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. However, the cross-referenced telephone calls declassified in recent weeks show dozens of communications between Gils Carbó and the Casa Rosada, as well as with the Ministry of Justice then led by Julio Alak. In this context, dozens of officials who served during César Milani's tenure at the head of the Army have already been summoned to testify. For investigators, the new elements reinforce the suspicion that there was a systematic plan to interfere in the investigation of Nisman's murder, a prosecutor who had accused the president just four days before being found dead. Additionally, another call is recorded on February 19 from the same office. Communications with the Ministry of Justice were even more frequent. The forensics indicate that on February 6, 2015, nineteen days after Nisman's death and at the height of the investigation, the former Attorney General spoke three times with the presidential office. In parallel, intelligence agents testified that Fein's prosecutor's office was being watched by spies from the former SIDE, then intervened by Oscar Parrilli and Juan Martín Mena. The analysis is not limited to Gils Carbó's personal communications. The technical material now analyzed reveals an intense and sustained communication between then-head of prosecutors and various Executive branch dependencies in the key days after the body was found. At the time of Nisman's death, Gils Carbó held a central position in the judicial system: she was the hierarchical superior of both Nisman himself and prosecutor Viviana Fein, who was initially in charge of investigating the circumstances of his death. The line of investigation into institutional interference, now backed by technical evidence, once again places the former Attorney General at the center of a case that remains open and fraught with political and judicial implications. Sources consulted: Clarín; judicial files; Federal Police forensics; sources from the Public Prosecutor's Office. The technical records account for contacts distributed in at least nine different days, including the day after the body was found, when experts were still working at the crime scene. According to Federal Police forensics, many of these calls triangulated with lines associated with military intelligence agents. Part of these contacts occurred while significant procedures were being carried out at Nisman's apartment or during key witness hearings. The prosecutor's office is now advancing on a volume of unprecedented information, which includes the analysis of calls corresponding to more than sixty new telephone lines and a data flow estimated at one terabyte. Hours later, that piece of information would be refuted by the locksmith who intervened at the scene, who stated that the door was open and without a key, an element that decisively weakened the initial suicide hypothesis. The forensics also reveal a peak in communications on February 2, 2015, a day in which Gils Carbó spoke eleven times with official lines.