Legal professionals for Brazilian football fantastic Ronaldinho are attempting to organize a hearing to get him briefly unveiled from detention for allegedly getting into Paraguay with a fake passport, protection resources advised AFP on Monday. “Ronaldinho did not dedicate a criminal offense simply because he did not know that the passport they gave him was faked,” he mentioned.

yoursite.com Ronaldinho, deemed one particular of the biggest footballers of all time, was 1 of the stars of Brazil’s 2002 World Cup win and played for European giants Barcelona Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan, amongst other folks.

He and his brother arrived in Asuncion from Brazil on Wednesday and confirmed their passports to immigration law enforcement, who did not instantly notice any problem with the paperwork.

Hours later, when the passports were identified to be faux, investigators raided the hotel area Ronaldinho was staying in and seized the brothers’ id cards and journey files.

Ronaldinho explained the passports experienced been offered to him by folks who had invited him to go to conferences sponsored by charities doing work with deprived young children.

A Brazilian businessman has also been arrested in relationship with the faux passports, even though two Paraguayan women have been placed below residence arrest and Paraguay’s migration director has resigned.

Queiroz explained the brothers were offered the passports “to facilitate the probability of carrying out business” in Paraguay.

“The idea was to position Ronaldinho with manufacturers and companies,” he included.

Paraguayan president Mario Abdo on Monday revoked by decree the authorized status of the basis that invited Ronaldinho to the country.

Protection attorneys for the “Angelic Fraternity” foundation’s administrator, Dalia Lopez, acknowledged that she had asked for official Paraguayan passports for the brothers but explained she had no thought that people shipped have been fakes.

Authorities have issued a warrant for her arrest.

Lopez’s lawyers said the brothers experienced handed more than $five,000 to “accelerate the approach to issue the passports” and that she “by no means suspected” intermediaries working with the request would have submitted false info to authorities.

Her attorneys also denied she had paid out Ronaldinho to come to Paraguay or that she was associated in business with him. But the arrested businessman, Wilmondes Sousa, claimed Lopez was accountable for making the faux passports.