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Investigators Search Doctor's Office, Probing Maradona Death

Associated Press

   BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - Argentine police searched the home and office
   of one of Diego Maradona's doctors on Sunday, taking away medical
   records as part of investigations into the death of the 60-year-old
   soccer star that caused a wave of grief across the country.

   Neurologist Leopoldo Luque told reporters after the searches that he
   had given investigators all of the records of his treatment of
   Maradona, as well as computers, hard drives and cellphones.

   Weeping at times, he insisted he defended his treatment of the troubled
   soccer star, who died Wednesday of a heart attack following a Nov. 3
   brain operation.

   "I know what I did. I know how I did it.... I am absolutely sure that
   what I did the best for Diego, the best I could."

   Luque said he was not Maradona's chief physician, but part of a medical
   team.

   Court investigators have been taking declarations from Maradona's
   relatives, according to a statement from the San Isidro prosecutor's
   office, which is overseeing a probe into the medical attention Maradona
   received prior to his death, which caused an enormous outpouring of
   emotion across Argentina and among soccer fans worldwide.

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