BUENOS AIRES. Argentine federal judge Daniel Rafecas has decided to close a complaint, for alleged trafficking in persons and other crimes, filed against the former footballer Diego Armando Maradona by his ex Cuban girlfriend, Mavys Álvarez Rego. This was reported by the Buenos Aires newspaper. The magistrate has decided to close the investigation concerning Maradona having died in 2020. The same has done for some members of his entourage, considering that the alleged crimes mentioned, after 20 years, had now lapsed.
In his order, Rafecas explained that the crimes were mainly committed by Maradona, with a secondary participation of his collaborators, between 9 November 2001 and 19 January 2002, the period in which the woman made a trip to Argentina. In some testimonies, Mavys Álvarez indicated last year that she met Maradona when he was in a clinic in Havana for drug detoxification therapy. At the time she was 16 and the former footballer around 40.
Among the accusations, she had also cited a rape suffered once in the Cuban capital and the fact that she was forced to undergo, while still a minor and without the consent required of her parents, to cosmetic surgery for an augmentation of the breasts. Dissatisfied with the judge’s decision, the Cuban’s defense lawyer announced an appeal.