BREAKING: The first doctor who saw Maradona dead will testify in the second trial for the star’s death
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After the unexpected annulment of one of the most high-profile trials in the history of Argentina, the reactivated judicial case for the death of soccer star Diego Armando Maradona will feature statements from important witnesses and members of the former athlete’s close circle on Thursday, April 30. Among those called to testify before the jury is Maradona’s plastic surgeon and neighbor, Colin Campbell, who years ago was urgently summoned to the former soccer player’s home by a security guard, under the warning that Maradona was unbalanced. After noon on November 25, 2020, the official date of Maradona’s death, Campell went to the house where the star was receiving home care, in a wealthy neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, while he recovered from recent brain surgery. Campbell found Maradona without vital signs, as he declared in the first trial. “It was very cold. From my experience and my knowledge as a doctor I can say that it had been like this for a while,” said the surgeon, who estimated the time of death at one or two hours ago. At the initial trial, the prosecution argued that medical professionals failed to follow treatment protocols and that the house where Maradona was recovering from surgery had become a “theater of horrors,” where he was not provided with the necessary care. Seven health professionals are accused of homicide due to negligence in the second trial to clarify the death of the former soccer player, after the first was annulled in 2025 due to the bad actions of one of the judges. Read alsoA new trial begins in Argentina for the death of Diego Armando Maradona Another of the leading statements on Thursday will be that of Verónica Ojeda, Maradona’s ex-partner and mother of his youngest son, who was interrupted during Tuesday’s hearing due to technical problems in the court. Ojeda revealed an audio recording of a meeting held on November 10, 2020 between doctors, lawyers and family members, where it was decided to treat Maradona from home after his last operation. The recording had been provided in the first trial by Rodolfo Benvenuti, a doctor summoned to the meeting by a friend of Maradona. But Ojeda assured that his audio lasts one hour and 45 minutes, while Benvenuti’s audio lasts only one hour, suggesting that the evidence provided in 2025 was incomplete or had been manipulated. After a brief deliberation, the court decided to incorporate the audio provided by Ojeda into the file. Both files will be compared at Thursday’s hearing at the request of the president of the court, Alberto Gaig. Supporters of Diego Armando Maradona demonstrate outside the San Isidro court this Tuesday, in Buenos Aires (Argentina). The second trial for the death of Diego Armando Maradona against seven health workers, after the annulment of the first in May 2025, began in court with the presence of the star’s family. © EFE/Adan González Carlos Díaz, a psychologist specialized in addictions who treated Maradona shortly before his death and who is accused in the trial, is also scheduled to testify. Díaz has not yet testified in this process and nor did he do so in the first, since the day his testimony was scheduled, the covert participation of Judge Julieta Makintach in a documentary about the trial was revealed, an event that led to the judge’s recusal and the annulment of the process. In addition to Díaz, Maradona’s neurosurgeon and family doctor, Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, doctor and coordinator of the Swiss Medical company Nancy Forlini, doctor Pedro Di Spagna, nurse coordinator Mariano Perroni and nurse Ricardo Almirón are tried in this process. 246 brands to exploit the image of 10 Prior to the resumption of the second trial for Maradona’s death, the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 43 of Buenos Aires sent the star’s last lawyer and attorney, Matías Morla, and the former soccer player’s sisters Rita Mabel and Claudia Norma Maradona to another trial, according to a resolution dated April 28 leaked by the EFE agency. Along with them, two assistants of the deceased ex-footballer, Maximiliano Pomargo and Sergio Garmendia, as well as the notary Sandra Iampolsky will also be prosecuted for “having defrauded the interests of the legitimate heirs of Diego Armando Maradona” through a company that managed 246 trademarks. Although the company Sattvica SA was under the fictitious share ownership of Morla and Pomargo, its commercial movements were carried out under the directives of Maradona. Thus, after the death of the former soccer player in November 2020, the transfer of these brands to the children of the deceased was requested, but Morla refused. Two people sit near the statue of Diego Maradona in his home neighborhood of Villa Fiorito, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 9, 2026. © TOMAS CUESTA / AFP Later, all of Sattvica’s shares were transferred to Rita Mabel and Claudia Norma, the sisters of the Argentine 10, although Morla maintained a central role in the company’s decisions, always according to the judicial accusation. “Thus, with said actions, they sought undue profit, violating the duties and obligations under their charge and thereby damaging the interests entrusted to them,” the resolution reads. At the end of 2025, the Argentine Justice confirmed the prosecution of Rita Mabel and Claudia Nora as necessary participants in the crime of fraud due to fraudulent administration and, last February, also confirmed the ban on using the company. Read alsoThe fight for the Maradona brand and family dilemmas: what came to light in the fourth week of the trial With EFE and local media
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