Overview
- Dalma and Gianinna Maradona filed a civil damages case against former judge Julieta Makintach, arguing they were harmed by the ex-magistrate’s conduct tied to a documentary about the case.
- Their lawyers said they meant to seek a total of 300 million pesos, but the court kept the filing at 300 million pesos for each sister after rejecting a correction that used copied-and-pasted signatures.
- Makintach was removed from the bench over her role in the “Justicia Divina” documentary and faces a separate criminal case in San Isidro that includes charges such as bribery and abuse of authority.
- In a different dispute, former agent Matías Morla said the fight over Maradona’s trademarks is headed to an oral trial under an order that blocks use of the brand, and he denied that signatures in the case were forged.
- The second criminal trial over Maradona’s death heard new testimony that neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque declined a more complex cardiac test that a cardiologist recommended for Maradona.