Son of Argentine president denies news reports about account

The son of Argentina's president on Tuesday denied anonymously sourced press reports alleging he had foreign bank accounts, calling them false accusations designed to smear his mother's administration.

"Let's be clear. I never had and do not have any account abroad, absolutely nothing," Maximo Kirchner told local radio Continental during an interview.

On Sunday, the newspaper Clarin, which has long been at odds with President Cristina Fernandez, published a story saying Kirchner held joint accounts in the United States and Cayman Islands with Nilda Garre, a former defense minister who is now Argentine ambassador to the Organization of American States.

Citing unidentified bank sources, Clarin said the accounts had tens of millions of dollars. Garre also had two accounts in an Iranian bank, which created "suspicions of business triangulation between Argentina, Iran and Venezuela," Clarin said.

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