A former bodyguard of Diego Maradona was arrested Tuesday for allegedly giving false testimony in the trial of seven health professionals accused of criminal negligence in the late football legend’s medical care.
Julio Coria left the courtroom in the Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro in handcuffs after judges ruled in favor of the prosecution’s claim that he had lied under oath.
Coria was present in the house were Maradona died under conditions prosecutors say amounted to negligence, and had tried to revive him with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, according to evidence before the court.
Maradona died of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema — a condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs — two weeks after brain surgery for a blood clot.
Coria had tried to resuscitate him until doctors arrived at the house in the upmarket suburb of Tigre, near San Isidro, and declared him dead.
The bodyguard claimed in court Tuesday he had not spoken with Leopoldo Luque, Maradona’s personal physician and one of the defendants on trial.
But the investigation revealed multiple text messages between the two before and after Maradona’s death.
The prosecution interrupted Coria’s testimony several times, accusing him of “contradictions and omissions,” before asking for his arrest.
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