--- title: Prosecutor Had Drafted Arrest Warrant for Argentine President description: The mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Argentina last month took a new twist on Tuesday. canonical: https://time.com/3694273/alberto-nisman-argentina-kirchner-arrest-warrant/ author: Noah Rayman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-03T20:23:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:07:11.430Z article:section: World og:title: Prosecutor Had Drafted Arrest Warrant for Argentine President og:description: The mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Argentina last month took a new twist on Tuesday. og:url: https://time.com/3694273/alberto-nisman-argentina-kirchner-arrest-warrant/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55500fb8f954e86a/69877d91cd68489dc209983e/kristina-kirchner-alberto-nisman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prosecutor Had Drafted Arrest Warrant for Argentine President twitter:description: The mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Argentina last month took a new twist on Tuesday. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55500fb8f954e86a/69877d91cd68489dc209983e/kristina-kirchner-alberto-nisman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Prosecutor Found Dead Had Drafted Arrest Warrant for Argentine President  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Feb 3, 2015 8:23 PM CUT  Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner gestures during the 47th Mercosur Summit, in Parana, Entre Rios, Argentina on Dec. 17, 2014. Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner gestures during the 47th Mercosur Summit, in Parana, Entre Rios, Argentina on Dec. 17, 2014.Juan Mabromata—AFP/Getty Images  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Feb 3, 2015 8:23 PM CUT The saga surrounding the [mysterious death ](http://time.com/3673649/alberto-nisman-argentina-iran/ "undefined")of prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Argentina last month took another twist Tuesday, when the lead investigator said Nisman had [drafted a warrant](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/world/americas/argentina-prosecutor-alberto-nisman-arrest-warrant-cristina-de-kirchner.html?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews®ion=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=29492236&pgtype=article "undefined") for the arrest of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The 26-page document was found in the garbage at Nisman’s apartment where he was discovered dead with a gunshot wound to the head on Jan. 18, the New York _Times_ reports. The document also requested the arrest of the country’s foreign minister, Héctor Timerman. Nisman had been heading the investigation into the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center when he died. He was expected to testify before Congress the day after he died about his allegations that [Kirchner](http://time.com/3678432/kirchner-nisman-murder/ "undefined") had covered up Iran’s alleged involvement in the attack. _Read more at_ [_the New York Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/world/americas/argentina-prosecutor-alberto-nisman-arrest-warrant-cristina-de-kirchner.html?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews®ion=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=29492236&pgtype=article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3694273/alberto-nisman-argentina-kirchner-arrest-warrant/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3694273/alberto-nisman-argentina-kirchner-arrest-warrant/"},"headline":"Prosecutor Found Dead Had Drafted Arrest Warrant for Argentine President","datePublished":"2015-02-03T20:23:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:07:11.430Z","description":"The document was found in a garbage in the apartment of the late Alberto Nisman","url":"https://time.com/3694273/alberto-nisman-argentina-kirchner-arrest-warrant/","keywords":["Argentina","Iran"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55500fb8f954e86a/69877d91cd68489dc209983e/kristina-kirchner-alberto-nisman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55500fb8f954e86a/69877d91cd68489dc209983e/kristina-kirchner-alberto-nisman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner","caption":"Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner","creditText":"Juan Mabromata—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/argentina/","name":"Argentina"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3694273/alberto-nisman-argentina-kirchner-arrest-warrant/","name":"Prosecutor Found Dead Had Drafted Arrest Warrant for Argentine President"}}]}] ```