A former police chief in Argentina was sentenced to four years in prison for losing evidence related to a terrorist attack on a Jewish center. The former deputy, Juan Carlos Castaneda, was sentenced Wednesday for losing tape cassettes, photographs, and videos that were relevant to the ongoing investigation into the 1994 attack on the AMIA center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed.
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