Police raid clinic to seize Maradona’s complete medical records

By: The Associated Press Posted: 1:24 PM CDT Wednesday, May. 7, 2025

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Police carried out an overnight raid at a Buenos Aires health clinic to seize Diego Maradona’s complete medical records following a court order during the trial of seven healthcare professionals accused of negligence in the former soccer star's death.

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Pablo Dimitroff, the medical director at Los Olivos clinic, testified that Maradona underwent pre-surgical studies, and the operation was performed by a neurosurgeon at that center without complications.

Those studies were not included in Maradona’s medical history and trial judges ordered the raid to seize all Maradona files dated between Nov. 3 and 11, 2020.

People relax outside the Olivos Clinic, where soccer star Diego Maradona got surgery weeks before his 2020 passing, in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Maradona had surgery for a hematoma that formed between his skull and brain and stayed in intensive care at Olivos between Nov. 4-11. He then was sent recover to a private home where he died on Nov. 25 of 2020 at age 60.

The raid started around midnight and extended to 4 a.m. Wednesday.

A police report showed that authorities secured about 275 pages of related archives and 547 emails exchanged between the medical professionals on trial.

The trial is set to continue Thursday.