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A former bodyguard of Diego Maradona is arrested for allegedly giving false testimony in the trial of seven health professionals accused of criminal negligence in the late football legend's medical care.
Julio Coria leaves the courtroom in the Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro in handcuffs after judges ruled in favor of the prosecution's claim that he had lied under oath.
"First, he hid the truth, he distorted the truth, he denied situations that were already established and incorporated by reading into the case," recalls Fernando Burlando, Dalma and Giannina Maradona's lawyer, who requested Coria's arrest.
Jana, one of the player's five children who is a plaintiff in the case along with her siblings and Maradona's sisters also testified. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES