After the idol’s death, the judicial authorities launched an investigation to find negligence in his medical treatment.
The neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, doctor of the late Diego Armando Maradona, used a forged signature of the star from football to request his medical history from the clinic where he was treated on Sept. 1, nearly three months before he died, sources of the investigation informed Efe last Friday.
“The calligraphic experts’ conclusion is compelling, saying the signatures were not made by Maradona, but they were forged, “they indicated.
After the idol’s death, on November 25 as a result of cardiac arrest, the judiciary launched an investigation to determine whether there was any negligence in his medical treatment that could lead to a crime of wrongful death.
While the case has no formal defendants or detainees so far, yes Various searches and seizures have been made, mainly in Luque properties, who treated Maradona and participated in his intervention for a brain hematoma in early November, and his psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov.
Three sheets with false signatures
During the house searches of the neurosurgeon on Nov. 29, three documents were seized which were later subject to expert judgment.
Two of these sheets contain the same typed text, in which Maradona formally requests the Olivos Clinic, located in the city of the same name in Buenos Aires, to provide Luque, his “personal doctor”, with a copy of his medical history..
“In one there is a single signature, which I suppose this person understands would suit them, and the other is the same writing with the same content with 10 or 12 signature tests,” the sources explained.
And the third sheet was confiscated It is a Maradona signature, presumably scanned from an original document, also accompanied by proof of signatures nearby.
A possible imputation
Once the inaccuracy of the signature of that document sent digitized to the clinic allowed Luque to obtain the clinical history, was established, the neurosurgeon may be accused of using a damaged private document, considered a crime in Argentina, regardless of whether the person who used it was the person who actually forged the signature.
“It needs to be analyzed, but it could imply an accusation against Luque, because (the legal framework) says that whoever uses the document does not necessarily have to be the author of the forgery, making it independent who forged it,” said the sources. .
“While there are suspicions that Luque, as Luque (the letter) had, may have falsified it, we have proven that Luque used it to retract medical history,” they clarified.
No defendants for alleged malpractice
Maradona died at the age of 60 in the solitude of his room in the Buenos Aires province home in which he was recovering from the operation to which he was exposed in November, among other things.
Already in December a toxicology report revealed that there were no alcohol or illegal drugs in his body, but there are several medications to treat your physical and mental health.
At this time, according to the sources, there are no defendants in the context of the death investigation as what is being done is to gather all the information so that the medical council that will be formed to determine how the doctors’ actions work with as much documentation as possible and being “so serious and conclusive”.
“That’s why we’re finishing up to see some medical history that is missing, additional expertise, and any interest deductions from the phone calls,” they added.
That counsel will consist of experts provided by both the public prosecutor’s office and the defense of Luque and Cosachov and the four persons who have presented themselves as plaintiffs in the case: on the one hand, their eldest daughters, Dalma and Gianina; on the other, the sisters of the star; and also Jana, another of the daughters, and Diego Fernando, who is still a minor, represented by his lawyer.