After the idol’s death, justice began an investigation to determine negligence in his medical treatment.
the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, physician of the late Diego Armando Maradona, used a forged signature of the star of football for, last September 1, almost three months before he died, ask for his medical history at the clinic where he was being treated, sources in the investigation told Efe on Friday.
“The conclusion of the calligraphic experts is conclusive and says that the signatures were not made by Maradona“But they were forged,” they said.
After the death of the idol, on November 25 due to a cardiorespiratory arrest, justice initiated an investigation to determine if there was any kind of negligence in his medical treatment which could result in a felony of culpable homicide.
While so far the case has no formal defendants or detainees, yes several searches and confiscations have been carried out mainly on Luque properties, Who treated Maradona and had participated in his intervention for a brain hematoma in early November, and his psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov.
Three leaves with fake signatures
In the records at the home of the neurosurgeon, on November 29, they confiscated three documents that were later appraised.
Two of these sheets contain the same text, typed, in which Maradona formally asks the Oliveres Clinic, located in the Buenos Aires town of the same name, to give Luque, his “personal doctor”, a copy of his medical history..
“In one there is a single signature, which is what I suppose this person understands would have looked good on him, and the other is the same writing with the same content with 10 or 12 proofs of signatures,” the sources explained.
And the third leaf confiscated is a signature of Maradona presumably scanned from some original document, Also accompanied by evidence of signatures around.
A possible imputation
Once the falsity of the signature of this document was determined, which, sent digitally to the clinic, allowed Luque to obtain the clinical history, the neurosurgeon could be charged with using an adulterated private document, Considered a crime in Argentina, beyond whether or not who used it was the person who actually falsified the rubric.
“It needs to be analyzed, but it could imply an imputation by Luque because (the legal framework) says that whoever uses the document does not necessarily have to be the perpetrator of the forgery, so it is independent whoever forged it,” the sources stated.
“While there are suspicions that, as Luque (the letter) had it, it may have been forged by Luque, what we have credited is that Luque used it to withdraw the medical history,” they nuanced.
No defendants for alleged malpractice
Maradona died at the age of 60, in the solitude of his room at home in the province of Buenos Aires in which he was recovering from the operation he underwent in November, among other illnesses.
Already in December, a toxicology report revealed that there was no alcohol or illegal drugs in his body, But the presence of various drugs to treat your physical and mental health.
At the moment, according to the sources, there are no defendants in the framework of the investigation of the death, since what is being done is to collect all the information so that the medical board that will be conformed to determine how was the action of physicians work with the greatest possible documentation and be “the most serious and conclusive.”
“That’s why we’re just seeing some missing medical history, complementary expertise, and all the interest deductions from phone conversations,” they added.
This board will be made up of experts appointed by both the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the defenses of Luque and Cosachov and the four individuals who appeared 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.