Former Brazil and Manchester City player Robinho has been arrested to serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape.
Robinho, 40, was arrested at his flat in Santos on Thursday.
He was found guilty in Italy in 2017 for his part in the gang rape of an Albanian woman at a night club in Milan in January 2013.
The former Premier League player, whose real name is Robson De Souza, was one of six men found guilty of assaulting the Albanian woman.
In 2020 an appeals court confirmed the conviction and the Supreme Court in Rome dismissed his final appeal against the conviction in January 2022.
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Former Brazil and Man City star Robinho has been arrested to serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape
He and five others were found guilty for the 2013 rape of an Albanian woman in a Milan nightclub
Italy could not get him extradited so they requested that he serves his time in prison in Brazil
Robinho claims he is innocent and has been living in Brazil for the past seven years.
His arrest comes after the Italian government failed to get him extradited, so they requested that he serve his sentence in his homeland.
A Brazilian court upheld the request on Wednesday.
Nine of the court’s 15 ministers had voted in favour of the decision to incarcerate the footballer in Brazil.
On Thursday, his request to pause his detention was snubbed by a Supreme Court judge.
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