A nurse accused of neglect in Diego Maradona’s death told Argentine prosecutors on Monday that he was following orders “not to district” the football icon while he slept.
Ricardo Almion, 37, was Maradona’s night time carer and was one of the last people to see the World Cup Winning captain alive. He is suspected of lying when he claimed Maradona was sleeping and breathing normally hours before he died. An autopsy revealed he was dying at the time.
The football legend died of a heart attack last November at the age of 60, just weeks after undergoing brain surgery for a blood clot.
Almiron is one of seven people under investigation for manslaughter after a board of experts looking into Maradona’s death found he had received inadequate care and was abandoned to his fate for a “prolonged agonizing period”.
An investigation was opened following a complaint filed by two of Maradona’s five children against neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, whom they blame for their father’s deteriorating condition after the operation.
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