Former Argentine President Carlos Menem sits at a court house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. The court is expected to give its verdict on the trial against Menem, several former officials, a former federal judge and two former prosecutors, accused of hampering the investigation of the attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – An Argentine court has absolved former President Carlos Menem of charges he tried to interfere with the investigation into the country's deadliest terrorist incident — the bombing of a Jewish center in 1994 that killed 85 people.
Thursday's ruling follows years of accusations that Menem and other officials tried to divert attention away from a Syrian businessman who was a family friend.
Menem was president from 1989 to 1999 and is now 88 years old. Even if convicted, likely would have avoided prison due to his legal protections as a senator.
Nobody has yet been convicted of the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, though Argentine prosecutors blame several former Iranian officials of responsiblility for the attack.
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