Ronaldinho arrested in Paraguay over fake passport

Ronaldinho arrested in Paraguay over fake passport

Football legend Ronaldinho has been arrested in Paraguay alongside his brother for the possession of a fake passport.
   
   
   
       
       
           
               
                   

Football legend Ronaldinho has been arrested in Paraguay alongside his brother for the possession of a fake passport.

               
           
               
                   

Barcelona and Brazilian legend was questioned alongside his brother Roberto on Wednesday evening according to La Nacion.

               
           
               
                   

Passports were reportedly found in their hotel room which had the duo's personal information listed with their nationality as Paraguayan.

               
           
               
                   

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Paraguayan authorities are set to make an announcement in the coming days and both brothers remained in their hotel.

               
           
               
                   

Ronaldinho and his brother were not taken to the police station but remain under custody and are obliged to go to the prosecutor's office on Thursday.

               
           
               
                   

"(Ronaldinho and his brother) are not being detained, they are still under judicial investigation and they have to testify. Then it will be decided whether they will be arrested or not," Paraguay's interior minister Euclides Acevedo told ESPN Brasil.

               
           
               
                   

He further added that the pair believe that they were tricked by a man who was accompanying them, who has since been arrested and are cooperating in the investigation.

               
           
               
                   

"Mr Ronaldinho has a false passport. That is a crime and that's why his arrest has been ordered," Paraguay's interior minister Euclides Acevedo told local radio station AM 1080. "I respect his sports popularity, but the law needs to be respected no matter who you are."

               
           
               
                   

Acevedo said that an investigation was "ongoing", adding that more information would be shared with the public at a press conference on Thursday morning, local time.

               
           
               
                   

"Ronaldinho will be heard at eight in the morning on Thursday at the prosecutor's office," Acevedo told reporters.

               
           
               
                   

"We are also investigating the responsibility of the authorities who allowed them to enter the country with falsified documents," Acevedo said.

               
           
               
                   

The brothers arrived in Paraguay on Wednesday morning to participate in a children's charity campaign and to publicise a new book about Ronaldinho's career.

               
           
               
                   

It is not the first passport controversy to engulf Ronaldinho and Assis. In November 2018, they had their travel documents seized by Brazilian authorities after failing to pay a fine resulting from a 2015 court case.

               
           
               
                   

Ronaldinho won the UEFA Champions League with Barcelona in 2006 and before that he had won the FIFA World Cup in 2002.

               
           
               
                   

                 

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