The defendants say Maradona had refused further treatment and should have stayed in hospital for longer after his operation. They risk prison terms between eight and 25 years if c

Diego Maradona died aged 60 after a heart attack in 2020, while recovering from surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain weeks earlier

Maradona, 60, was under the care of those professionals when he had a cardiac arrest in a house outside Buenos Aires on November 25 2020.