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An Italian court upheld a nine-year prison sentence against former Brazilian soccer player Robinho for being involved in a gang rape. The Milan appeals court confirmed the verdict against the 36-year-old forward and a friend of his on Thursday.
According to the court, in January 2013, while he was still playing for AC Milan, he and five other men raped a 22-year-old Albanian woman in a Milan nightclub. Robinho and his friend were sentenced in absentia in November 2017.
Apart from the arrest, the two men were ordered to pay their victim a total of € 60,000 in compensation. Robinho has denied the allegations. You can now appeal against the appeal judgment within 90 days. The Brazilian returned to his home country after the incident.
He had to leave his Santos club there in October under pressure from sponsors after Brazilian television station Globo Sports published excerpts from a recording made by the Italian prosecutor during an interrogation of Robinho. In it, the footballer apparently says: “I laugh because I don’t care. The woman was totally drunk. He doesn’t even know what happened. “
