Brazil’s Federal Public Ministry (MPF) on Tuesday requested that former soccer player Robinho serve in the country the nine-year prison sentence imposed on him in Italy for raping a woman.
The prosecution sent an opinion to the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) in which it defends compliance with the sentence in Brazil, understanding that it respects national law and because it will also serve to demonstrate Brazil’s commitment to crime suppression and cooperation. legal.
In a statement, the MFP stressed that if Brazil does not force Robinho to serve the sentence, The State runs the risk of allowing impunity for a crime whose materiality and authorship are recognized worldwide.
The fiscal body too An argument by Robinho’s defense, which questioned the legality of the proceedings, was refuted where some evidence was collected that served to convict the former soccer player.
In Brazil and without a passport
Robinho, who is in Brazil, although he does not have a passport and is, therefore, prevented from leaving the country, is found guilty in 2022 by the Italian Justice of participating in a gang rape of an Albanian boy in a nightclub in Milan in 2013.
The sentence is final, butThe Brazilian Constitution prohibits the extradition of its citizenswhere the authorities of the European country requested the approval of the sentence to carry it out in Brazil.
The rape took place in 2013, when Robinho was playing for Milan, and one of his friends, Ricardo Falco, also participated in it, who was also convicted for it.
Source: La Verdad
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