ASUNCION (AFP) - Former Brazil football star Ronaldinho was released on Monday (Aug 24) by a Paraguayan judge after spending five months in detention over a forged passport.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ASUNCION - Former Brazil football star Ronaldinho was released on Monday by a Paraguayan judge after spending five months in detention over a forged passport.
The judge stressed that he was not issuing a"definitive dismissal" of the case but rather that Ronaldinho was benefiting from a"conditional suspension of the procedure". His brother, on the other hand, was given a two-year suspended sentence. De Assis Moreira must appear before a judge in Brazil every four months for two years and will have a criminal record.
The brothers arrived in Paraguay on March 4 with Ronaldinho, the 2005 Ballon d'Or winner, due to take part in an event in support of disadvantaged children. "They presented Paraguayan documents to migration authorities believing they were authentic," said the statement."The people they trusted deceived them vilely."
Some 18 people have already been arrested in connection with the case, most of them immigration officials or police officers.
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