ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Former soccer star Ronaldinho and his brother were taken in handcuffs to a courthouse in Paraguay on Saturday following their arrest for allegedly entering the country with falsified documents.

Prosecutors are seeking to extend the detention of 39-year-old Ronaldinho and brother Roberto Assis, while defense lawyer Sérgio Queiroz says they should be freed because they are not a threat or flight risk.

The Brazilian brothers were arrested Friday night in a hotel in Asunción, Paraguay's capital, and accused of using false Paraguayan ID documents.
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.

Ronaldinho and Assis had said they went to Asunción for business reasons.

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.

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 license to build a fishing platform on the shores of the Guaiba river 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 traveling.

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.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/handcuffed-ronaldinho-brother-appear-paraguayan-153439631.html

Blind Justice

WTF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPgfMI7xwog

These people have no respect

I pray he gets out of this mess asap, must have been traumatized

They covered his own handcuffs and exposed his brother 's own. What hypocrisy

Ok

Omg , I can't believe this ..... E don happen ...motor don jam am

Oh, are you telling me Ronaldinho doesn't have the money to process original documents?. Why e go do oluwole passport na.

Btw I buy and sell $$ see my signature

If not for foot ball most this guys would have have been in jail as they mostly thugs and crimainal minded

Lol... Why them come wrap am with towel.. I remember one of ronaldinho's interviews that I watched..he said if not for football, he would've been in jail cus it is the only thing that keeps him sane that when he retires, there a lot of things he will be doing that won't be considered normal...I guess this is one of them,

Justice is really blind when applied legitimately

This is Serious... #Ronaldinho

His Image is Getting Tarnished.

irony of life,too much olopa to settle...,.

If don't manage fame and money well, this might be where you will get yourself

Money don finish

Ha

A country that works. nobody is above the law
Not like a certain country in west Africa were this case would have settle at the airport ��

Good one. If he's guilty he should be prosecuted and if not he should be compensate.

God will help him out

How the mighty are fallen..

He will dribble his way out.

Na waoo...this type of thing can never happen in naija.

Interesting..

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Free Him.... oooo

This is becoming bad..

From all of us in NairaLEARN we demand that he should be free in the next 24 hour