Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor in charge of the investigation into the terrorist attack against the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994, has told the AJN news agency that the Argentine Justice ministry had recently approved the seizure on the property of former Iranian cultural attaché in Buenos Aires, Moshen Rabbani, charged with alleged involvement in the bombing. The measure, which had been requested in a petition filed by one of the victims of the attack, was approved after the Argentine Real Estate Registry had reported that the property, now divided into six independent stores, was registered under Rabbani's name. Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant against Rabbani and others in connection with the AMIA case. Nisman said that the property "is most likely to be sold off at an auction and the proceeds will be used to provide monetary compensation to the victims of the attack".
This measure follows an embargo approved in October by federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral on the assets of the Lebanese group Hezbollah and of other former Iranian officials in Argentina. Another embargo is already effective on four banking accounts in Germany and Switzerland, which reportedly belong to former Iranian president Rafsanjani and to the former commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Moshen Rezahi, estimated to be worth nearly US$ 50 million.
