Aide who gave gun to dead Argentine prosecutor is fired

[World News]

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The assistant who supplied late Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman with the gun used in his mysterious death was sacked on Monday, officials said. The justice ministry announced the dismissal of Diego Lagomarsino, a computer expert at the Argentine public prosecutor's office and the last person known to have seen Nisman alive. Lagomarsino was fired because Nisman's interim replacement "reported that he did no work," Luis Villanueva, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office, told radio station Nacional Rock. Nisman was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head on January 18, on the eve of a Congressional hearing at which he was expected to accuse President Cristina Kirchner of covering up high-ranking Iranian officials' role in a deadly 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish center.

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