Maradona's death: Luque used the paper with Diego's suspicious signature and is on the verge of another indictment

Gaston Leturia

01/18/2021 15:30

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 01/18/2021 3:33 PM

A week opens that promises a lot of relevant information in the cause investigating the death of Diego Armando Maradona (60).

In the first place, this Tuesday the calligraphic expert opinion will be carried out that will determine if the doctor

Leopoldo Luque (39)

forged the signature of the

Ten

that appears in a request for a medical history in his name before the Olivos Clinic dated September 1, 2020.

That sheet and two others with "scribbles" similar to Maradona's signature were found in the search of Luque's house.

The key detail that sources of the investigation confirmed to

Clarín

is that this document with that signature was used and presented digitally (the one found is the original copy) and that step, in the case of verifying that the signature is trout, constitutes a crime for "use of adulterated private document".

The imputation would fall directly on Luque.

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

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

"If those signatures are not Diego's, they are attributed to Luque

and, if he questions it, he will be able to request a new handwriting," remarked one of the researchers.

The expertise will be carried out at the San Isidro Expert Advisory Department after the prosecutors investigating the circumstances of Diego's death received his original signature (taken from Federal Police files), which will be compared with the three seized sheets at the neurosurgeon's house.

From Luque's house, on Calle 30 de Septiembre al 1800, in Adrogué, they took everything related to Maradona.

Among the elements, three forms: one of them was the request for the clinical history of

Diez

to the Olivos Clinic with an alleged signature of Diego (which was used formally) and another was similar but instead of a "signature" it had about 20 " doodles "simulating Maradona's signature.

The third was a sheet with Maradona's signature scanned and around it another series of "scribbles", in another intention to imitate or simulate it.

It must be borne in mind that people's medical records can only be delivered to the patient or with an authorization.

Another of the forms, with the request for medical records but a series of "scribbles" simulating Diego's signature.

Meanwhile, prosecutors accessed the information of the two hijacked cell phones from the psychiatrist

Agustina Cosachov (35)

, the other professional responsible for Maradona's health together with Luque.

These are Iphone brand cell phones (a 6 Plus and a SE), which had been kidnapped in Cosachov's house on December 1, in Palermo, and which they had already tried to analyze without success last December.

The researchers will analyze only the information referring to Maradona's medical treatments contained in all cell phones, PCs and tablets seized in the framework of the investigation, as well as the communications and messages that the investigated persons have had about the previous moments, concomitant and after Diego's death.

Maradona, the greatest figure in the history of world football, died at the age of 60 last November 25 at noon, in a house that his family had rented in the private neighborhood of San Andrés, Tigre, two weeks after his discharge from Olivos Clinic, where he had undergone neurosurgery for a subdural hematoma in the brain.

And the third worksheet, with a scanned Maradona signature and several attempts to imitate it.

The autopsy determined that he died as a result of "acute lung edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure" and discovered "dilated cardiomyopathy" in his heart.

According to the results of the toxicological studies carried out, Maradona

did not have alcohol or illegal drugs in his body,

although they did detect psychotropic drugs.

Some of the psychotropic drugs found are "arrhythmogenic", that is, they produce arrhythmia, something that experts and prosecutors must now analyze to see if they were appropriate for a patient with a chronic heart disease like the one suffered by the former Gymnastics DT.

The investigation by the team of prosecutors created by decision of the San Isidro attorney general, John Broyad, and made up of him and Patricio Ferrari, Cosme Iribarren and Laura Capra, focuses on three main axes: whether there was medical negligence and therefore

a possible "wrongful death"

, who was responsible for this possible crime and whether Maradona's death could have been prevented.

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