Buenos Aires  - A federal public prosecutor on Thursday requested the arrest of former Argentine president Carlos Menem (1989-1999) over "irregularities in the investigation" of an attack on a Jewish mutual fund that claimed the lives of 85 people in 1994, Argentine media reported.

Public prosecutor Alberto Nisman also requested the arrests of Menem's brother Munir Menem, former intelligence service boss Hugo Anzorreguy and former federal judge Juan Galeano, initially in charge of the investigation on the attack. Federal judge Ariel Lijo will now have to make a decision also on those requests.