ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Former soccer star Ronaldinho and his sibling were taken in binds to a town hall in Paraguay on Saturday following their capture for purportedly entering the nation with adulterated records.
Examiners are looking to broaden the detainment of 39-year-old Ronaldinho and sibling Roberto Assis, while guard legal counselor Sérgio Queiroz says they ought to be liberated on the grounds that they are not a danger or flight chance.
The Brazilian siblings were captured Friday night in an inn in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, and blamed for utilizing bogus Paraguayan ID records.
Queiroz had said Ronaldinho, the 2002 World Cup victor and previous Barcelona star, was getting ready to return a trip to Rio de Janeiro, where he lives, without further ado before the captures.
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Ronaldinho and Assis had said they went to Asunción for business reasons.
The previous footballer and his sibling said the records were offered as a blessing by a Brazilian businessperson, Wilmondes Sousa Liria, who has been imprisoned.
Ronaldinho’s visa was seized in November 2018 due to a claim over supposed ecological violations. Specialists said the previous Barcelona star didn’t have the important natural permit to assemble an angling stage on the shores of the Guaiba waterway in his old neighborhood of Porto Alegre. With unpaid harms of $2.1 million, Ronaldinho’s visa was seized, alongside that of his sibling, to keep him from voyaging.
In September of a year ago, nonetheless, the star arrived at an arrangement with investigators and recovered his archives. It was not quickly clear why he and his sibling didn’t utilize their Brazilian records for the outing to Paraguay.