Overview

• The Buenos Aires appeals court charged Matias Morla and two assistants over alleged fraudulent management of the 'Diego Maradona' trademark and its derivatives.
• Two of Maradona’s sisters, Rita and Claudia, along with a notary, are prosecuted as accomplices in the case.
• Judges ordered an asset freeze totaling 2 billion pesos, reported as roughly $1.34 million, across the six defendants.
• The court concluded Maradona still exercised control over his patrimony at his death, supporting immediate reversion of related assets to his heirs, who are civil parties.
• The trademark prosecution proceeds alongside a separate, unresolved case on medical responsibility in Maradona’s 2020 death after a first trial was annulled in May and no new date has been set.