{"id":106553,"date":"2020-03-08T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T12:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=106553"},"modified":"2020-03-08T08:45:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T12:45:21","slug":"ronaldinho-and-brother-appear-in-paraguayan-court-in-handcuffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ronaldinho-and-brother-appear-in-paraguayan-court-in-handcuffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldinho And Brother Appear In Paraguayan Court In Handcuffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former soccer star,\u00a0Ronaldinho and his brother were taken to\u00a0court in Paraguay today in handcuffs following their arrest for allegedly entering the country using\u00a0falsified documents.<\/p>

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Prosecutors are seeking to extend the detention of 39-year-old Ronaldinho and brother Roberto Assis, while defence lawyer S\u00e9rgio Queiroz, says they should be freed because they are not a threat or flight risk.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian brothers were arrested Friday night in a hotel in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay’s capital, and accused of using false Paraguayan ID documents.<\/p>

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Queiroz had said Ronaldinho, the 2002 World Cup winner and former Barcelona star, was preparing to take a flight back to Rio de Janeiro, where he lives, shortly before the arrests.<\/p>

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Ronaldinho and Assis had said they went to Asunci\u00f3n for business reasons.<\/p>\n

The former footballer and his brother said the documents were offered as a gift by a Brazilian businessman, Wilmondes Sousa Liria, who has been jailed.<\/p>

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Ronaldinho’s passport was seized in November 2018 because of a lawsuit over alleged environmental crimes. Authorities said the former Barcelona star did not have the necessary environmental licence to build a fishing platform on the shores of the Guaiba\u00a0river in his hometown of Porto Alegre. With unpaid damages of $2.1 million, Ronaldinho’s passport was seized, along with that of his brother, to prevent him from travelling.<\/p>\n

In September of last year, however, the star reached a deal with prosecutors and got his documents back. It was not immediately clear why he and his brother did not use their Brazilian documents for the trip to Paraguay.<\/p>

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