A excessive court docket in Brazil dominated on Wednesday that former soccer star Robinho has 15 days to problem Italy’s request to arrest and imprison him for rape.
The deadline was set after Brazil’s superior court docket of justice unanimously rejected a request from the 39-year-old’s legal professionals for the court docket to investigate a full translation of the proceedings and the sentence towards Robinho from Italian into Portuguese.
Italian authorities need the previous Brazil, Actual Madrid and AC Milan striker to serve his nine-year sentence in Brazil, however the court docket is but to agree. Brazil doesn’t extradite nationals.
Robinho was convicted in Italy in 2017 for his half within the group sexual assault in Milan that happened 4 years beforehand, when he was taking part in for Serie A staff AC Milan. Italy’s high court docket upheld the Brazilian’s sentence in 2022, after which Italian prosecutors issued a world arrest warrant.
The Brazilian court docket will resolve whether or not to execute the arrest warrant and impose the sentence pending Robinho’s attainable problem beneath the brand new deadline.
Robinho lives in Santos, exterior Sao Paulo. He relinquished his passport to Brazilian authorities in March.
His legal professionals didn’t reply a request for remark from The Related Press. They’ve mentioned their consumer had consensual sexual relations at a bar with a younger girl, as 5 of his pals additionally did.