Family, environment and doctors: who is who in the cause for the death of Diego Maradona

12/02/2020 4:55 PM

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Updated 12/02/2020 4:55 PM

Diego Armando Maradona (60) was operated on November 3 at the Olivos Clinic (Vicente López) for a subdural hematoma.

Eight days later he settled in a house in the private neighborhood of San Andrés, in Tigre.

The property, located in lot 45, had been rented until January 31, 2021 in a contract signed by Jana (one of the star's daughters) on November 10 and paid in full by the lawyer Matías Morla.

From that moment, and until the fatal outcome that occurred shortly before noon on November 25, a chain of events occurred around Maradona that are now being investigated by the Justice.

The focus is on what conditions Diego was hospitalized at home and if the care he received was adequate for his state of health.

The underlying question is:

Could his death have been prevented?

The team that works in the San Isidro General Prosecutor's Office has a situation map, with protagonists who could be incorporated as plaintiffs or affected individuals and others who could be investigated or accused.

On one side and the other of the counter.

Leopoldo Luque (39): Neurosurgeon, MN 160588. Researched.

Dr. Leopoldo Luque with Diego Maradona.

His home and office were raided on Sunday the 29th, just 48 hours after Maradona's funeral.

Immediately, through his lawyers Julio Rivas and Mara Digiuni, he

requested an "exemption from prison"

, an anticipatory measure to what could be a formal indictment and a request for detention.

Luque, a neurosurgeon and specialist in brain and spinal interventions, received a call in 2016 and in that communication a colleague friend told him that El

Diez was

 looking for a neurologist and it occurred to him that Luque and his partner Ariel Sainz, directors of the Columna medical center Baires, could be the chosen ones.

Thus, for the last four years the neurosurgeon has been concerned with improving the motor skills of the

Ten

, beset by pain in the knees, shoulders and ankles.

"The person in charge of medical care was Leopoldo Luque and he was the one who made all the decisions," declared Dalma, Gianinna and Jana from 22 on Saturday 28 to 3 in the morning of Sunday 29 in the San Isidro Courts.

Dr. Leopoldo Luque's post for Diego Maradona's 59th birthday.

It was recognized "in charge" of the health of "10".

Hours later, the raids on his house (in Adrogué) and his office (in Belgrano) were completed.

Luque, in addition, was a signatory with Gianinna and Jana of Maradona's discharge from the Olivos clinic.

He, however, denies in court that he was his personal doctor.

The doctor Alfredo José Cahe (77), who cared for Diego for 33 years, launched after his death: "Diego should have stayed not only in that clinic (where he was operated on), but in a hospitalized place with a different infrastructure."

Agustina Cosachov (35): Psychiatrist MN 144241. Investigated.

The psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and the psychologist Carlos Díaz give a medical report on Maradona at the door of the Olivos clinic.

Photo: AFP

The professional made an explicit recommendation in an order signed on November 4 in which she requested as indispensable "nurses, preferably men with full-time availability and specialized in substance use problems, neurologists and clinical doctors."

In addition, it required "having the availability to carry out medical studies and an ambulance in case the transfer is considered necessary."

All this thinking about the home hospitalization that would take place a few days later, on November 11.

The private home and his office, both in the Palermo neighborhood, were raided this Tuesday.

Two cell phones, Diego's medical history and 12 prescriptions in his name were seized at the house of the psychiatrist, who was notified as a possible defendant in the case in which the circumstances of the death of the former soccer player are being investigated.

The investigators read her the "rights and guarantees" contemplated for the accused in articles 60 and 162 of the Buenos Aires Criminal Procedure Code, among them, being able to put a defender, not being obliged to testify against herself and being able to appear for a spontaneous declaration.

The specifications of Maradona's psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov, to guarantee her care outside the clinic.

Although there are still no elements to cite her to an investigatory statement for a specific crime - although the Guarantees judge has already classified the act as a provisional "wrongful death" -

the prosecutors explained to Cosachov that her actions were the subject of this investigation.

His lawyer is Vadim Mischanchuk

.

She and the psychologist Carlos Díaz were the ones who arrived at the house in the San Andrés neighborhood at 11:30 on Wednesday, November 25, and there it was discovered that Maradona had no vital signs.

Luque and Cosachov are, up to now, the only ones observed for their possible responsibilities by the team headed by prosecutor John Broyad, head of the San Isidro judicial department.

Prosecutors Patricio Ferrari, Cosme Iribarren and Laura Capra are investigating the case together with Investigating Judge Orlando Díaz.

Other protagonists of the situation are part of Maradona's environment (since they were with him in that supposed home stay), the nursing service that the prepaid Swiss Medical had arranged to control the health of "10! And the family circle and closeness Maradona, who now with the progress of the investigation are incorporated into the cause. 

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Dahiana Gisela Madrid (36): Nurse.

He was in charge of Maradona's care shift from 6.30 in the morning.

She was part of the nursing staff of the company "Medidom", an outsourced service provided by the prepaid medicine company Swiss Medical.

His first statement already threw up an important detail.

He said that that morning of November 25, he did not see Diego until the psychiatrist and psychologist arrived.

The messages that Madrid wrote as reports in the WhatsApp group of the team of nurses in the hours prior to Diego's death were known:

"6.30 the guard is taken, patient rests"

;

"7.30am he can be heard wandering inside the room, diuresis in a portable bathroom"

;

"8.30 continues to rest"

;

"9:20 refuses to take vital signs checks

.

"

Then he reports that at 11:55, before the arrival of Cosachov and Díaz, they entered the room and that "after several attempts to call, the patient did not respond."

Rodolfo Baqué, lawyer for the nurse who cared for Maradona in San Andrés, Tigre.

"Maradona fell on the Wednesday (of the previous week) before his death.

He fell and hit his head

(right side), but they did not take him to a hospital for an MRI or CT scan," said the nurse's lawyer. , Rodolfo Baqué.

"She was hired on Friday, November 13. That day she had a normal relationship with Maradona, there were even therapeutic assistants who accompanied him 24 hours a day. Then, on Monday, when she returned to work, the therapeutic assistants were gone. Maradona was there for her. he throws her out, but since his relief had not arrived they told him to stay out of Maradona's sight, because he did not want to be cared for by her, "he explained.

The shift prior to the one taken by Madrid was in charge of Ricardo, the nurse who left his shift at 6.30 on that Wednesday and was the last to see him alive.

He stated that, before leaving the guard, he entered the room and found Maradona in his bed, sleeping and breathing normally.

Matías Morla (41): Lawyer for Maradona.

Maradona and Morla, together, months ago.

Matías Edgardo Morla arrived at Diego's small table in 2013, when the lawyer Rodolfo Ruiz, partner in the law firm of Víctor Alejandro Stinfale (56, a close friend of Maradona), stopped "taking the papers" to the former 10 of the National Team .

From that moment, each day was a sustained approach to Diego's intimacy and directly proportional to the distance he took from Claudia Villafañe and the daughters of the world champion in Mexico 196. Morla controlled everything around Diego, he put his brother-in-law as an assistant , his sister (accountant) in charge of financial control and put together a new structure of custodians.

Then came the experiences in Dubai and Mexico, and the return to Argentina.

From defining everything and being the axis of Maradona's life, Morla stopped going to the wake last Thursday at the Casa Rosada because they warned him that the weather was not "the best."

Diego Maradona, with Matías Morla and Víctor Stinfale.

Dalma (33), Gianinna (31) and Jana (24): Daughters of Maradona.

Maradona's female daughters did not ask to be plaintiffs in the case.

Nor did any lawyer appear on behalf of Diego Armando Junior (34), son of Maradona's relationship with Cristiana Sinagra, who continues in Italy.

Gianinna and Jana, signatories to Maradona's discharge order from the Olivos Clinic, went several times to Maradona's house in the San Andrés neighborhood, while Dalma would have done it once.

Dalma and Giannina, in full pain during the last goodbye to their dad.

Dalma, a day before Diego's head surgery, exploded on his Twitter account: "

For the sake of the bloodsuckers, let nothing happen to him

."

The message came at a time when Maradona's three daughters were fully involved in monitoring their father's health and, at the same time, marking a distance from Matías Morla.

After Maradona's death, it turned out that Dalma, Gianinna, Jana and Diego Jr. were part of the WhatsApp group together with the psychologist and the psychiatrist.

The goal was to keep up with his father's day-to-day life and closely monitor his recovery.

Diego Maradona was visited by his youngest daughter, Jana, at the Olivos Clinic.

In the program 

Intruders

(

America

) they revealed some chats of that group, which are part of the investigation.

"I have just been contacted by a person who is in charge of the home hospitalizations that dad vomited (he ate shrimp with garlic and broccoli) and who does not want an ambulance to go to check him,"

Dalma wrote on November 10.

"I believe that the relatives there are things that we cannot decide. That for that would be a clinical doctor or at least his doctor who answers for him," he

remarks.

Cristiana Sinagra and her post on Facebook, along with Diego and Diego Jr.

And on November 14, in another message, Dalma reiterated his request.

"Leopoldo (Luque) is a neurosurgeon and what we are talking about is a general practitioner"

,

Dalma tells Diego Jr. who had asked about the neurosurgeon.

So, Gianinna promises that she is "going to investigate."

Later, Benjamín Agüero's mother asks if they know anything "about the house" where his father is and the psychologist Díaz responds:

"I'm talking to Maxi. He told me that they are watching videos of Diego and that he is very well. That Diego claim more privacy only. "

Verónica Ojeda (43): Ex-partner of Maradona, mother of Diego Fernando.

Verónica Ojeda, after testifying as a witness.

Photo Télam

The mother of Dieguito Fernando (7), the youngest of the five recognized by Maradona (there are another six in the filiation process), testified for five hours before the prosecutors who are investigating the circumstances in which the soccer star died and contributed data on what he saw on his last visits to the house where his former partner was staying before he died.

"It was a very extensive statement. She provided information about Diego's previous home hospitalization, they asked her what she saw, who allowed her to enter the house and who did not, who called her to tell her that he did not want to receive her and then Diego he called to ask why he had not gone, "explained the lawyer Mario Raúl Baudry (52), who is Ojeda's current partner and appeared as a representative of" Dieguito "(7) as a plaintiff in the case.

Ojeda said that the people with whom he spoke about Maradona's state of health were Leopoldo "Luque and the psychiatrist" Agustina Cosachov.

Mario Baudry, lawyer and partner of Verónica Ojeda.

Photo: Andrés D'Elía.

According to Baudry, "Luque and the psychiatrist were told that the house was not in good condition and they said they were going to occupy it."

For the lawyer, Maradona "was in charge of those who signed off" from the Olivos Clinic.

"Dieguito, Dalma and Gianinna cannot understand what doctors can do. There is responsibility of the medicine companies," he said.

Asked about what Ojeda went through when he went to see Maradona two days before his death, the lawyer said that "(Matías) Morla's sister called her (Ojeda) because Diego was alone, Verónica went to the house and the custodian and the weekend nurse. (Diego) He was lying on the bed, he spoke with her and with Dieguito ".

Diego Maradona went with his son Dieguito Fernando to the first gymnastics friendly in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, against San Lorenzo.

The lawyer said that Ojeda asked him to appear in the case because he wants that when his son "grows up" he can tell "what happened" to the father and "if there was a natural death to be able to tell him that his father died of a heart attack, but if there was a natural death due to medical malpractice, let the guilty be in prison ".

"Cali", Ana, "Kity" and "Mary": Maradona's sisters.

Diego and his brothers.

The Judge of Guarantees No. 2 of San Isidro, Orlando Díaz, granted this Wednesday to the lawyers Matías Morla and Yamil Castro Bianchi the appeal they presented after the magistrate rejected that Diego's sisters are taken into account as private individuals victims in the file, considering that there were other relatives, such as children, with "better rights."

Now it will be the San Isidro Chamber of Appeals and Guarantees that will define if Diego's four sisters can enter the file or if it endorses the criteria of Judge Díaz and leaves them out of the case.

Claudia Nora ("Cali", 49), Ana Estela (69), María Rosa ("Mary", 62) and Rita Mabel ("Kity", 67) claim to be able to request evidence or present expert witnesses.

Elsa Lucía ("Lili", 65), Raúl Alfredo ("Lalo", 54) and Hugo Hernán ("Turco", 51) complete the combo of children of Diego Maradona ("Chitoro", 87) and Dalma Salvadora Franco (" Doña Tota ", 81), who died in 2015 and 2011, respectively.

"Johnny" Espósito and "Maxi" Pomargo: Maradona's assistants.

World Cup in Russia 2018. Maradona, with Rocío Oliva and, behind, Maxi Pomargo, Morla's personal assistant and brother-in-law.

Jonathan Alejandro Espósito ("Johnny", 36, son of "Mary" Maradona) and Christian Maximiliano Pomargo ("Maxi", 41), Matías Morla's brother-in-law, also lived in the house on Lot 45 in the San Andrés neighborhood.

Both acted as assistants to the

Ten

, even in the first hours of the investigation it was believed that Johnny had been the last to see his uncle alive, on Tuesday at 11:30 p.m.

It is not ruled out that in the near future they will be called to declare.

Also in the day and day was Romina Milagros Rodríguez, "Monona", the cook who the night before the death of the DT of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata had prepared some crumb sandwiches that were "intact" when the experts entered to review the room where Maradona had died, an adapted playroom on the ground floor.

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