How the case of Maradona's death continues (Kicker)

 

The neurosurgeon doctor Leopoldo Luque (39 years old) declared before the San Isidro Prosecutor's Office (a few kilometers north of Buenos Aires) that he was not responsible in the domiciliary admission of Diego Maradona in a house in Tigre until his death on November 25, at submit a letter and answer questions on June 28.

Luque, the main defendant in the case in which Maradona's death is being investigated, blamed the prepaid medicine company "Swissmedical" -which, according to him, promised to provide nursing services, therapeutic companions and ambulances- by maintaining that he as the psychiatrist AgostinaCosachov (35) “suggested” this type of hospitalization but that they were not part of the formal medical team nor were they the former footballer's family doctors.

"It is clear from the file that there was a completely independent and foreign medical group for home hospitalization, which had assigned doctors," said Luque, who stressed that he did not have the structure, qualification, registration and knowledge to carry out this home hospitalization.

Luque is charged with "Simple homicide with eventual intention", a crime that provides a penalty of between 8 and 25 years in prison and pointed out that his specific function during Maradona's home hospitalization "was to control the postoperative period" in reference to the surgical intervention of a bruise on the brain.

The team of the San Isidro Attorney General's Office headed by John Broyad has been investigating Maradona's death for six months and has already received the report of the medical expertise that concludes that Luque “did not guarantee his due follow-up with cardiological controls and studies, nor did he summon specialists in cardiovascular, hepatic and renal matters, as his condition required, leaving his fate to his odds”.

It also says that "he systematically underestimated the symptoms compatible with heart failure reported to him by people outside the medical team" and that "he did not prepare a medical record of the victim" or establish "the relevant data on the patient's diagnosis, therapy and illness."

The statements were made between June 14 and 28 and were subpoenaed in addition, the nurses Ricardo Almirón (37) and Dahiana Madrid (36), the coordinator of nurses Mariano Perroni (40), the doctor coordinating the home hospitalization Nancy Forlini (52), the psychologist Carlos Díaz (29) and the psychiatrist Cosachov .

On the other hand, the program “Periodismo Para Todos” (PPT) of Channel 13 reported last Sunday night about the signing of a contract between the representative of Maradona, MatíasMorla, and the TNG company (led by Alejandro Trasmonte), habitual supplier of goods to the Argentine State (such as photo fines for bad parking or rental of digital equipment) to offer to the Mint (Coin Factory) the factory of notes, coins and commemorative stamps with his image in order to use the image of the former football player.

The agreement was signed between "Sattvica" (Morla's company) and Ibertest (the owner of TNG). The director of the Mint –always according to the PPV program-, Rodolfo Gabrielli, acknowledged having met with Trasmonte to hear his proposal on the impressions of Maradona's banknotes and there were even contacts with the Central Bank although the Government of Alberto Fernández argues that we must now wait for the end of the succession between Maradona's heirs (his children Dalma, Giannina, Diego Jr, Jana, Diego Fernando and Eugenia, to advance the project.

There is also talk of another contract between Morla and Trasmonte to offer the State a show called "Maradona Experience" for the anniversary of his death and Morla's lawyer and representative, Mauricio D’Alessandro, added that they are trying to sell this proposal abroad, something that would seem to be accepted by the lawyers of the heirs as something "profitable" for them and for the State.

Mauro Baudry, lawyer for Diego Fernando -Maradona's youngest son- and his mother, Verónica Ojeda, calculated the amount that could be obtained as a profit of between 10 and 30 million dollars.