Ex Interpol head Ronald Noble refutes claim that Cristina Kirchner sought Iran Red Notices lifted

The former Secretary General of Interpol, Ronald K. Noble, repudiated claims made by an Argentine judge that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President Mauricio Macri's chief political rival, sought to have Interpol Red Notices lifted against Iranian officials implicated in the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack in Buenos Aires.

The three year-old claim, dismissed by Argentine courts in seven instances - including two appeals - was revived on Thursday by Federal Judge Claudio Bonadío, who indicted Mrs. Kirchner for “treason” and asked that the Senate expel her in order to facilitate her arrest.

“A biased Judge Bonadío report cannot change the truth,” Noble tweeted earlier today. “INTERPOL was never asked by Argentina or (former Foreign Minister Héctor) Timerman to remove the AMIA Red Notices!”

Regarding Bonadío's claim that “Noble's impartiality should be doubted” and other assertions, Noble, 61, declared that he “is not ill and does not need immunity to speak the Truth - which is that INTERPOL was never ever asked to remove the AMIA Red Notices.”

The claim that the Kirchner administration sought to “cover up” alleged Iranian complicity in the AMIA attack by asking Interpol to lift Red Notices against implicated Iran officials was originally made on January 12, 2015, by the late AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman.

Nisman was vehemently opposed to a 2013 memorandum of understanding signed with Iran for their cooperation in the case - still unsolved after 23 years.

Noble noted on January 15, 2015 - as he did again today - that no such requests had been made, however, and that on the contrary, the Kirchner administration had “stated on each occasion that Interpol should keep the red notices effective.”

“Prosecutor Nisman's assertion,” Noble declared, “is false.”

Facing a congressional subpoena over the scandal, Nisman was found dead four days later of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The investigation into Nisman's death remains ongoing.

Bonadío had been exposed in 1996 as a “napkin judge” - a shortlist of judges who lent themselves to politicized trials at the behest of then-President Carlos Menem and his Interior Minister, Carlos Corach.

Bonadío was recused from the case in 2004 for use of false evidence and for failing to move the AMIA case forward. Nisman accused Bonadío, Corach, and former Macri-appointed Police Chief Jorge Palacios of having threatened his life over the case in 2010.

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Former Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and former Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble discuss the AMIA case in 2013.