Dani Alves will seek freedom with the 1.2 million that the treasury must return

He soccer player Dani Alves, sentenced this week for Hearing in Barcelona to four and a half years in prison for raping a young woman in a nightclub in Barcelona in 2022. 1.2 million from the Spanish treasuryconvicted in another case regarding the taxation of athletes.

The newspaper La Vanguardia publishes the sentence of the fourth section this Saturday Litigation-Administrative Council of the Land Court, sent to the player’s lawyer the same day he learned of his rape conviction.

In this second case, National audience supports the appeal filed by the footballer against the process initiated by the Ministry of Finance to pay for the services of a FIFA agent. With the new fine, the state treasury must return a total of 1.2 million euros to Dani Alves.

Brazil’s tax lawyers, according to the newspaper, intend to insist sooner Tax agency to proceed immediately with restitution with the intention, as they announced, of presenting that capital as security to seek the player’s temporary release pending the finality of the sexual assault conviction.

ANDthe lawyer of the football player for sexual assault, Inés Guardiola, He will appeal the sentence in that case and will request the release of the athlete in the coming days, realizing that with the imposed sentence of less than 9 and 12 years that were requested by the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution, the high risk of escape has disappeared.

To do this, he will present part of the money owed to Alves by the state treasury as a guarantee that he will not escape.

His lawyer also claims that Alves has other antecedents, has a home in Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona) and surrendered his passport after he was arrested on January 20 last year, the day he entered prison.

All of Alves’ bank accounts have been frozen since his arrest, so he cannot use his money.

Added to that is the court process that was opened for him in Brazil ex-wife of Dinorah Santana for the pension of his two children, which has so far led to the confiscation of his entire capital.

This is the reason why Alves had to turn to the father of his friend Neymar to pay the 150,000 euros of civil responsibility that the court demanded from him during the investigation of the rape case, money that served as a mitigating circumstance to reduce the sentence.