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Updated Saturday, February 24, 2024-12:26

  • Courts All the news about the Alves case

The soccer player

Dani Alves

, sentenced this week by the Barcelona Court to

four and a half years in prison

for raping a young woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022, will receive 1.2 million from the Spanish Treasury, convicted in another case about the taxation of the athlete.

The newspaper La Vanguardia publishes this Saturday the sentence of the fourth section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the National Court, sent to the player's lawyer on the same day he learned of his conviction for rape.

In this second case, the National Court

upholds the appeal presented by the footballer

against the process opened by the Treasury for payment of the services of a FIFA agent.

With the new sentence, the Treasury has to return a total of 1.2 million euros to Dani Alves.

The Brazilian's tax lawyers, according to the newspaper, intend to insist before the Tax Agency that it proceed with the return immediately with the intention, as they have advanced, that this capital be presented as a guarantee of bail to request freedom player's provisional status until the sentence for sexual assault is final.

The soccer player's lawyer for the sexual assault, Inés Guardiola, will appeal the sentence in that case and in the coming days

she will ask for the athlete's freedom

, understanding that with the sentence handed down, less than the sentences of 9 and 12 years requested by the Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution, the high risk of flight has disappeared.

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Provisional freedom (and its two key dates), Dani Alves' way out of prison after his conviction

  • Editor: CRISTINA RUBIO Barcelona

Provisional freedom (and its two key dates), Dani Alves' way out of prison after his conviction

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The 'yes means yes' law benefits Dani Alves and saves him a minimum of a year and a half in prison in his conviction for rape

  • Editor: CRISTINA RUBIO Barcelona

The 'yes means yes' law benefits Dani Alves and saves him a minimum of a year and a half in prison in his conviction for rape

To do this, he will present part of the money that the Treasury owes to Alves as a guarantee that he will not flee.

His lawyer also alleges that Alves has other antecedents, he has a home in Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona) and handed over his passport after being arrested on January 20 of last year, the day he entered prison.

Alves has had all his bank accounts frozen since his arrest

, so he cannot use his money.

Added to this is the judicial process opened in Brazil by his ex-wife Dinorah Santana for the support of her two children, which has led to the seizure of his entire capital so far.

This is the reason why Alves had to turn to the father of his friend Neymar to pay the 150,000 euros of civil liability that the court demanded from him during the investigation of the rape case, money that has served as a mitigating circumstance to reduce the sentence.