After the idol’s death, the court launched an investigation to determine the negligence in his medical treatment.
neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the doctor of the late Diego Armando Maradona, used a fake signature of the star football so that, on September 1, almost three months before he died, to request his medical history from the clinic where he was treated, Efe investigated sources informed 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 indicated.
After the idol’s death on November 25 due to cardiopulmonary arrest, Justice has launched an investigation into whether there was any negligence in his medical treatment which could lead to an offense of unlawful death.
Although so far the case has neither official defendants nor detainees, yes various searches and seizures were carried out, mainly on the Luque properties, who treated Maradona and participated in his intervention for a cerebral hematoma in early November, and his psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov.
Three sheets of false signatures
During the searches at the neurosurgeon’s home, on November 29, three documents were confiscated and subsequently submitted to an expert opinion.
Two of these sheets contain the same typed text, in which Maradona officially asks the Olivos Clinic, located in the city of the same name in Buenos Aires, to give Luque, “his personal doctor”, a copy of his medical history..
“There is only one signature in one, which means that this person understands that it would suit him, and the other is the same writing with the same content with 10 or 12 signature tests,” the sources explained.
And the third leaf began It is a signature of Maradona probably scanned from an original document, accompanied by evidence of the surrounding signatures.
A possible imputation
Once the falsity of the signature of that document was found, which, sent digitally to the clinic, allowed Luque to obtain the clinical history, the neurosurgeon could be charged with using a corrupt private document, considered a crime in Argentina, whether or not the person who used it was the person who actually forged the signature.
“It must be analyzed, but it could imply an accusation for Luque because (the legal framework) says that whoever uses the document does not necessarily have to be the perpetrator of the forgery, which makes him independent of whoever forged it,” the sources said. .
“Although there are suspicions that, as Luque (the letter) had, Luque may have forged it, what we have proven is that Luque used it to withdraw the medical history,” they clarified.
There are no defendants for the alleged wrongdoing
Maradona died at the age of 60, in the solitude of his room in the house of the province of Buenos Aires in which he was recovering from the operation he underwent in November, among other ailments.
Already in December, a toxicology report showed that there was no alcohol or illegal drugs in his body, but there are different medications to treat your physical and mental health.
Currently, according to sources, there are no defendants in the death investigation, as what is being done is to collect all the information, so that the medical committee that will be formed will determine how the actions of doctors work. with as much documentation as possible and to be “as serious and conclusive as possible”.
“That’s why we end up seeing some missing medical histories, complementary expertise and all the deductions of interest from the telephone conversations,” they added.
The council will be composed of experts provided by both the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the defense of Luque and Cosachov and the four persons who presented themselves as the applicants in question: On the one hand, their eldest daughters, Dalma and Gianina; on the other hand, the star’s sisters; and also Jana, another daughter, and Diego Fernando, who is still a minor, represented by his lawyer.