{"id":31118,"date":"2025-09-19T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31118\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:55:08","slug":"court-seizes-1-34m-in-maradona-brand-fraud-probe-against-lawyer-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31118\/","title":{"rendered":"Court seizes $1.34m in Maradona brand fraud probe against lawyer, sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"
The court alleges Morla\u2019s brand management business was merely a front, and Maradona continued exercising control of his assets until he died.<\/p>\n
Under those conditions, the ruling says, the assets \u201cimmediately revert to his heirs\u201d.<\/p>\n
The court ordered the seizure of US$1.34 million, stating the assets should revert to Maradona\u2019s heirs, Dalma and Giannina. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Two of Maradona\u2019s daughters \u2013 Dalma and Giannina \u2013 first brought accusations against Morla and other defendants in 2021.<\/p>\n
The football star\u2019s three other children have since joined in the legal fight.<\/p>\n
Maradona died while recovering from brain surgery.<\/p>\n
He was found to have died of heart failure and acute pulmonary oedema \u2013 a condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs \u2013 two weeks after going under the knife.<\/p>\n
Another case determining if there was medical negligence in his death is awaiting retrial after a judge had to recuse herself based on involvement in a clandestine documentary. <\/p>\n
That trial was scrapped in May after two months of hearings.<\/p>\n
-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court alleges Morla\u2019s brand management business was merely a front, and Maradona continued exercising control of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29937,3225,5474,9092,29944,29939,19092,4463,1349,29940,29941,3561,29945,71,26022,78,29943,20053,1044,29938,29942,111,139,69,29947,10711,193,10702,28758,29946,12641,29936,24809,5271,213,1529,1865,6436],"class_list":["post-31118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-134m","tag-according","tag-afp","tag-against","tag-alleging","tag-argentinian","tag-assets","tag-brand","tag-court","tag-deceased","tag-diego","tag-fraud","tag-fraudulent","tag-from","tag-idol","tag-in","tag-individuals","tag-lawyer","tag-management","tag-maradona","tag-maradonas","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-obtained","tag-officials","tag-other","tag-players","tag-probe","tag-ruling","tag-seized","tag-seizes","tag-sisters","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-three","tag-today","tag-well"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}