Rio de Janeiro (AFP)

Argentinian golfer Angel Cabrera, wanted by Interpol since September for domestic violence, was arrested Thursday in Rio de Janeiro and will be extradited to his country of origin.

Winner of two major tournaments, the US Open in 2007 and the Augusta Masters in 2009, Cabrera, 51, is notably accused by the Argentine justice of "bodily injury, theft and threats", detailed the Brazilian federal police in a press release released on Friday.

He was arrested Thursday afternoon in the chic district of Leblon, in the southern zone of Rio, and will remain in prison "until his extradition to Argentina".

At the end of September, Interpol issued a red notice against the golfer, considered a fugitive in Argentina since August 14, when he failed to report as scheduled to the prosecutor's office, after being accused of having committed violence against his companion.

He was last seen that same August, during a tournament in Ohio, United States.

In 2016, his partner Cecilia Torres Mana lodged a complaint against him for "mistreatment", accusing him in particular of having struck him "with punches in the face".

Two other women had already filed a complaint against him before for threats, his ex-wife Silvia Rivadero, mother of his two children, and Micaela Escudero, his partner from 2014 to 2016.

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