The death of a prosecutor in Argentina appears to be a suicide.  But the fact that the man had just made wild accusations of a vast conspiracy involving the nation’s president is feeding opposition suspicion, conspiracy theories, and tabloid journalists.

51-year old Alberto Nisman last week released a 300-page report accusing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman of a labyrinthine plot to cover-up Iran’s apparent role in the 1994 bombing of the Argentina Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires in which 85 people died, in order to further an oil deal.  This is despite the fact that Argentina has never wavered from its long-held belief that Iran was behind the murderous, anti-Semitic attack.

Ten years ago, Nisman was appointed to investigate the bombing by the previous president, the late Nestor Kitchner – the late husband of the current President CFK.  The government is dismissing the allegations as ridiculous, and this was supposed to be the week that Nisman was to produce some evidence backing up his claims.

But on Sunday, Nisman’s bodyguards worried that they hadn’t heard from him all day.  They fetched his mother and tried to enter his 13th storey apartment in Buenos Aires, but the door was locked from the inside and the key was still in the lock.  After contacting a locksmith, they gained entry.

His mother found the body in the bathroom of the apartment.  An Argentine-made Bersa .22-calliber handgun and a spent bullet casing lay next to the body.  Documents show that Nisman had registered two guns.  There was no suicide note, but Nisman had made chilling statements in the previous days, including telling a TV interviewer, “With Nisman around or not, the evidence is there,” and later saying, “I might get out of this dead.”  Prosecutors are awaiting an analysis of security video of the residential high rise and Nisman’s phone records.

Seems pretty obvious, no?  Yeah, well.. everyone's got an opinion.

“This has turned into an attack on the credibility of the fundamental institutions of the republic,” said La Nacion newspaper columnist Santiago Kovadloff. 

Conservative opposition congressman and rabbi Sergio Bergman went on social media to declare Nisman “victim 86 of the AMIA attack.”

“Everything is far more sordid than it appears,” said Left-wing opposition Congresswoman Elisa Carrio.  “They killed him or they induced his death.”