Italy ask Brazil to imprison ex-Milan striker Robinho

Newswire

Rome: The Italian government this week asked Brazil to enforce the nine-year prison sentence handed to former Milan striker Robinho.

Brazilian outlet UOL details how Robinho and his friend Ricardo Falco were convicted by courts in Italy for the rape of a 23-year-old Albanian woman in Milan on January 22 2013. The initial sentence came on November 23 2017, when the former Rossoneri forward was in Brazil, a country that does not extradite their citizens to a foreign country, and was upheld in Italy’s Supreme Court.

On January 24, the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio signed an order asking for the Brazilian judicial authorities to carry out Robinho’s nine-year sentence. The Italian government had requested for the former Milan player to be extradited to Brazil in September 2022, but this was rejected due to Article 5 of the Brazilian Constitution.

Police later released various snippets of text conversations held between Robinho and his friends in the days after the incident in January 2013, including one where the then-Milan forward said: “I’m laughing because I couldn’t care less, the woman was completely drunk, she has no idea what happened.”