New medical records, emails surface in probe into Diego Maradona’s death

BOGOTA / ISTANBUL

Investigators probing the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona have seized 300 new medical documents and over 500 emails from a clinic where he was treated, according to media reeports on Wednesday.

At the request of prosecutors, Buenos Aires provincial police raided the Los Olivos clinic, where Maradona spent his final days in November 2020.

The decision to conduct the early morning operation came after court testimony revealed contradictions between Pablo Dimitroff, the clinic’s medical director, and Fernando Villarejo, head of the intensive care unit.

During the raid, police met with clinic officials and legal representatives of the Swiss Medical company, which owns the facility. Authorities said the aim was to recover treatment records between Nov. 3 and 11, 2020, that had not previously been submitted to the court.

Seven people, including Maradona’s neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, are facing charges of negligence leading to the footballer’s death.

Maradona, considered one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, died on Nov. 25, 2020, in Tigre, Buenos Aires province, from acute pulmonary edema linked to chronic heart failure.

• Argentine
• Buenos Aires provincial police
• case-fire
• Documents
• Football
• Investigation
• legend Diego Maradona