Mark Chavez, accused of killing American actor Matthew Perry, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a Los Angeles court, reports said. Reuters agency. The doctor was accused, along with four other people, of illegally distributing ketamine, the drug that led to the pop star's overdose death. friendsin October of last year.

The doctor accepted the deal with the prosecution after expressing “remorse.” For his involvement in Perry's death. Chavez was one of two California doctors who accompanied the actor's recovery from drug addiction. Now you can face up 10 years in prison. His lawyer, Matt Benninger, had already stated that Chavez wanted to cooperate with justice because he regretted contributing to the death of someone who should have helped him with medical care.

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The actor, who was famous for his participation in the series “Friends,” died in October of last year, and an autopsy determined the cause of death to be “acute effects” of ketamine. Perry had already publicly admitted his drug problems. In August this year, an investigation revealed that the accidental overdose was caused by an elaborate plan between doctors and people close to Perry to continue selling him ketamine in doses larger than those needed for his treatment.

Matthew Perry's personal assistant and doctors have been accused of facilitating access to the medication that led to his death

The other doctor who worked with Chavez, Salvador Plasencia insisted in court on his innocence, as did Jasvin Sangha — known as the “Ketamine Queen” — who is also accused of supplying Perry’s two doctors with the drug. The two will be brought before the court again The trial is in March.

The other two involved in the case were the actor's assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, and a middleman who claimed to have obtained the medicine from the Sangha. Both were facing lesser charges and had pleaded guilty on another occasion.