Justice confirmed that the doctor Leopoldo Luque falsified the signature of Diego Maradona

Gaston Leturia

01/22/2021 11:01

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 01/22/2021 11:03 AM

The situation Leopoldo Luque is complicated in the cause that investigates the death of Diego Maradona.

This Friday, the Expert Advisory Office confirmed that the doctor forged the signature of the Ten that appears in a request for medical records 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 result of the calligraphic expertise is already in the hands of the San Isidro prosecutors who are carrying out the case for the investigation of the possible wrongful death of Maradona.

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 constitutes a crime for "use of an 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.

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.

Beyond confirming that the signatures were not made in Maradona's handwriting, in addition to the specific accusation for this crime, another element appears on the investigators' table, highly indicative, regarding the context of irregularities in which , they suspect, Diego's health was handled.

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

Maradona's medical history is a strong point.

And it will be part of what

the Medical Board will review starting at the end of the month

, when it finally agrees.

The team of prosecutors is still making progress in collecting all of the star's medical history.

"All the material from the medical records is being gathered and the Medical Board will only be formed there," added the source.

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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