A prosecutor accusing Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner of covering-up Iran’s suspected role in a deadly Jewish center attack in 1994, has been found dead in his apartment hours before he was set to testify in front of the national Congress.

“Alberto Nisman was found dead on Sunday night in his flat on the 13th floor of the tower Le Parc, in the Buenos Aires district of Puerto Madero,” the Argentinian security ministry said in a statement released Sunday night.

According to the ministry statement, Nisman’s guards informed their superior that he had not been answering their calls. Late Sunday night, Nisman’s mother entered his apartment with the help of a locksmith, as the door was locked from the other side, and found her son’s body in a pool of blood. A gun was found near his body.

“We can confirm that it was a gunshot wound, 22 caliber,” Viviana Fein, federal prosecutor, told Argentine news agency Telam. “In the coming days we will determine the cause of death with an autopsy.” However, it is too early to say what exactly has happened, she added.

RT