Diego Maradona’s lawyer testified as a witness in the cause for the death of the Argentine idol

The lawyer Matías Morla, who was a representative and friend of Diego Maradona, appeared to testify this Monday before the Justice as a witness in the case in which the death of the soccer star is being investigated.

This is the beginning of a new round of testimonies that the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Buenos Aires town of San Isidro began, since this Wednesday Morla’s brother-in-law and former Maradona secretary, Christian Maximiliano Pomargo, and the idol’s nephew must also appear to testify Johnatan Espósito, who lived in the house where Diego died on November 25, 2020.

Prosecutors also asked notary public Sandra Verónica Iampolsky and Maradona’s accountant Andrea Trimarchi to appear to testify, although the statement scheduled for this Thursday could be rescheduled.

The Argentine Justice investigates seven people for alleged “simple homicide with eventual intent“- a crime that provides a penalty of between 8 and 25 years in prison – seeking to determine whether the care of the former footballer was deficient and the necessary means were not put in place to prevent his death.

They are the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the psychologist Carlos Díaz, the doctor who coordinated home care Nancy Forlini, the coordinator of the nurses Mariano Perroni and the nurses Ricardo Omar Almirón and Dahiana Gisela Madrid.

All of them have already declared before the Justice, that they have been collecting testimonies for months.

As explained by Morla’s lawyer, Mauricio D`Alessandro, the summons to testify “it is a pacification measure”Of the prosecution because he recalled that the daughters of Maradona Dalma and Gianinna had asked, as individuals affected, to be called for an investigation.

Maradona died at the age of 60 and the autopsy on the body of the former captain and former Argentine national team determined that he died as a result of a “acute lung edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure”.