- Sports.Ronaldinho: no passport, seized and drowned by debts
Ronaldinho Gaúcho and his brother Roberto will remain in police custody in a luxurious hotel on the outskirts of Asunción until Thursday they are taken to testify to the Prosecutor's Office, which will decide whether to proceed to arrest both for allegedly entering Paraguay with false passports .
The National Police also arrested a Brazilian citizen who was with the two brothers at the Hotel Resort Yacht and Golf Club Paraguayo, in the city of Lambaré, according to the Prosecutor's Office.
The source added that in the room where the two brothers are staying , two Paraguayan passports were seized in the name of Ronaldo de Assis Moreira and Roberto de Assis Moreira.
The detainee is the Brazilian Wilmondes Sousa, 45, who would also have entered with adulterated Paraguayan documents.
The former Barcelona footballer and his brother will testify early Thursday at the Public Ministry .
The National Police issued an arrest warrant to Ronaldinho after receiving information from the immigration authorities that he would have entered the international airport of Asunción with adulterated documents.
After them there was a search by tax agents and the National Police of the hotel room.
According to the Prosecutor's Office, the two brothers declared that they went to Asunción invited by Nelson Belotti, owner of the Il Palazzo casino.
They also mentioned that the former footballer planned to present the free medical assistance program "Mobile health of girls and boys" on Thursday in Asunción, a mobile mobile care for children in Paraguay.
In that event Ronaldinho was also going to present his book Genius of life .
Dozens of people went to receive Ronaldinho at the Asuncion airport , after having passed the customs controls normally.
He was later awarded the title of Illustrious Visitor of Asunción in a ceremony in the Municipality.
Some Paraguayan media pointed out that the former Brazilian international had some kind of problem in Brazil that prevented him from leaving his country, so he would have resorted to using fake documents.
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