The Brazilian footballer Daniel Alves He was sentenced this Thursday to four and a half years in prison by a court in Barcelona that found him guilty of having raped a woman in the bathrooms of a nightclub in that Spanish city at the end of 2022.
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The judges considered it “proven that the victim did not consent and that there is evidence, in addition to the testimony of the complainant, to understand the rape as proven,” the court said in a statement, two weeks after the end of the trial.
Dani Alves and his lawyer Inés Guardiola.
The magistrates imposed an additional five years of supervised release, a restraining order from the victim for nine and a half years and the payment of compensation of 150,000 euros (about $162,000).
Money for Alves
In the midst of his situation, Dani Alves learned this Saturday thatThe Spanish Treasury will return a million-dollar amount that you can take advantage of in the process.
The footballer will receive 1.2 million euros, just after knowing its tendency. The National Court has upheld the appeal presented by Alves against a process opened by the Treasury for the payment of the services of a Fifa agent.
With this figure, the Brazilian's tax lawyers intend to request the Tax Agency for the immediate return of this capital, which they seek to provide as a guarantee for bail to request provisional release.
It was previously known that, after Alves' financial crisis, who has had his bank accounts frozen, the footballer's family Neymar contributed the sum that should have been allocated for the victim.
The lawyer of the former Barça player, Ines Guardiolaannounced that she will appeal the sentence, while the complainant's lawyer, Ester García, stated that her client is “satisfied” because they have “believed” her, although she left the door open to a possible appeal.
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