Maradona's signature was forged to access his hospital medical history, according to the prosecutor investigating his death | CNN

They reveal Maradona's health status before he died 0:35

(CNN Spanish) -

The prosecutor in charge of the investigation into the death of Diego Armando Maradona, John Broyad told CNN that the former footballer's signature was adulterated in the document that allowed him to remove his medical history from the hospital where he was operated, as determined an expertise commissioned by that Prosecutor's Office this Friday.

A source with direct access to the judicial file explained that in order to reach this conclusion, three documents found at the home of Dr. Leopoldo Luque, one of Maradona's closest doctors, were analyzed.

There are still no defendants in the case investigating whether the soccer star died on November 25 of manslaughter due to possible medical negligence, but Luque is among those investigated.

The doctor has always stated that he acted correctly in Maradona's health care.

The documents analyzed in the calligraphic expertise were supposed authorizations in which Maradona allowed Luque to withdraw his medical history from the hospital where he underwent surgery for a subdural hematoma on the head three weeks before he died.

The suspicion arose from one of those documents in which investigators observed at least eight signatures of Maradona.

"It gave the feeling that someone practiced making Maradona's signature," said the source with direct access to the file consulted by CNN.

The other two documents analyzed were also supposed authorizations from Maradona to provide access to his medical records, but they had only one signature.

For the prosecutor Broyad, it is already proven in the case that Luque used one of those documents to withdraw Maradona's medical history, adding that this could lead to an accusation of the crime of "use of adulterated private document."

Julio Rivas, Luque's lawyer confirmed to CNN that such documents contained false signatures of the late soccer star.

Asked about who committed adultery, he said he could not answer it.

The prosecutor in charge anticipated that "in mid-February" the case could have its first accusations, after an interdisciplinary medical board analyzes all the information collected in the file.

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