Argentine prosecutors investigate death of soccer star Maradona

SHOWS:

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (NOVEMBER 29, 2020) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS OF BUILDING WHERE MARADONA'S PERSONAL DOCTOR, LEOPOLDO LUQUE, HAS HIS OFFICES

2. POLICE / PROSECUTORS OUTSIDE OFFICES OF LUQUE BEING SEARCHED

3. LOGO OF POLICEMAN'S JACKET

4. EXTERIOR BUILDING ENTRANCE

5. OFFICERS STANDING BEHIND CORDONED OFF AREA

6. TV CREWS OUTSIDE BUILDING

7. PEOPLE LOOKING ON

OLIVOS, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA (RECENT - NOVEMBER 8, 2020) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)

8. MARADONA'S DOCTOR, LEOPOLDO LUQUE, ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL ON MOTORBIKE

9. LUQUE WALKING INTO HOSPITAL

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MARADONA'S DOCTOR, LEOPOLDO LUQUE, SAYING:

"I said Diego feels like leaving and we are evaluating letting him go. We have to see different clinical parameters but the truth is that his evolution is very, very good."

OLIVOS, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA (RECENT - NOVEMBER 11, 2020) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)

11. VARIOUS OF AMBULANCE LEAVING HOSPITAL

12. LUQUE LEAVING HOSPITAL ON BOARD MOTORBIKE

13. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MARADONA'S DOCTOR, LEOPOLDO LUQUE, SAYING:

"Very happy. He looks great. We need to continue working but he looks great."

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (NOVEMBER 26, 2020) (ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT TV - ACCESS ALL)

14. VARIOUS OF PLAYERS FROM MARADONA'S LOCAL TEAM GIMNASIA Y ESGRIMA PAYING THEIR RESPECTS AT FOOT OF CASKET

STORY: Argentine justice officials are investigating the death of soccer star Diego Maradona and ordered the search of properties of his personal doctor on Sunday (November 29), a local prosecutor's office said.

Maradona died at age 60 of a heart attack on Wednesday (November 25). The search order was requested by prosecutors in the affluent Buenos Aires suburb San Isidro and signed by a local judge, according to a statement issued by the prosecutor's office.

"Yesterday (Saturday) the investigation and substantiation of evidence continued with the taking of statements from people including direct relatives of the deceased," it said.

"By virtue of the evidence that was collected, it was considered necessary to request searches at the home and office of doctor Leopoldo Luque," the prosecutor's office said in the statement.

The prosecutor's office provided no information on what prompted the investigation.

Maradona's lawyer, Matias Moria, on Thursday (November 26) said he would ask for a full investigation of the circumstances of the soccer legend's death, criticising what he said was a slow response by emergency service.

"The ambulance took more than half an hour to arrive, which was a criminal idiocy," Matias said on Thursday in a Twitter post.

(Production: Claudia Martini, Juan Bustamante, Miguel Lo Bianco, Geraldine Downer)