Robinho was named in a gaggle sexual assault case in 2017 throughout his Serie A stint.

Former Brazilian soccer star Robinho has been given 15 days to problem a sexual assault arrest and imprisonment case in Italy. The ruling got here in on Wednesday, August 16, as a excessive court docket in Brazil dominated in opposition to the previous star.

The deadline was set after Brazil’s superior court docket of justice unanimously rejected a request from the 39-year-old’s attorneys for the court docket to research a full translation of the proceedings and the sentence in opposition to Robinho from Italian into Portuguese.

Italian authorities need the previous Brazil, Actual Madrid and AC Milan striker to serve his nine-year sentence in Brazil, however the court docket is but to agree. Brazil doesn’t extradite nationals.

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Robinho was convicted in Italy in 2017 for his half within the group sexual assault in Milan that occurred 4 years beforehand, when he was enjoying for Serie A group AC Milan. Italy’s prime court docket upheld the Brazilian’s sentence in 2022, after which Italian prosecutors issued a world arrest warrant.

The Brazilian court docket will determine whether or not to execute the arrest warrant and impose the sentence pending Robinho’s attainable problem underneath the brand new deadline.

His attorneys didn’t reply a request for remark from The Related Press. They’ve stated their shopper had consensual sexual relations at a bar with a younger girl, as 5 of his buddies additionally did.