Fernando reveals conversation with Bolsonaro to help in the Robson case: “I have confidence” | international soccer

“I am confident that all these actions that we are taking together will help Robson prove his innocence,” Fernando wrote.

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According to Fernando, the contact with Jair Bolsonaro was mediated by the Minister of Citizenship, Onyx Lorenzoni. According to the player, the president stressed that “this is a very complicated diplomatic issue, but one that will try to help in the best possible way.”

Fernando’s post comes the same day as Bolsonaro’s first public demonstration on the subject and also on a positioning of the Russian Embassy in Brazil. The president promised to ask the Russian government to release Robson. The representative of the European country said that “it is taking all the necessary measures.”

Robson is detained in Russia for one year and six months, after entering the country with drugs containing substances banned on Russian territory, but released in Brazil. The drugs belonged to William Faria, the player’s father-in-law.

In the last week, a movement in social networks with the hashtag “JustiçaporRobson” gained strength and It also caused a more detailed positioning by Fernando, who left Spartak Moscow in July last year and went to Beijing Guoan, China.

Robson and his wife, Simone, worked for Fernando, at the time when the midfield revealed by Grêmio and with the national team, was playing for Spartak Moscow. They were hired by the player’s family, and shipped to Russia transporting, at the request of Fernando’s father-in-law, a drug legalized in Brazil, but prohibited in Russian territory, Mytedon – Methadone hydrochloride.

At the time, Robson claimed that he did not know what was in the suitcase and that the family had reported that the luggage only contained some clothing and supplies. The Brazilian was finally arrested at the Moscow airport, and thirty days later, charged with possessing the drug. Neither Fernando, nor the player’s wife, Rafaela Rivoredo, nor Rafaela’s father, William Pereira de Faria, confirmed to the Russian authorities that the medication belonged to William.

Fernando’s father-in-law, William Faria, did not provide any clarification to the Russian police. On June 6, 2019, three months after Robson’s arrest, in testimony, Fernando said he did not know how the drugs were received by Robson in Brazil, or how to deliver them, either in the suitcase or in unpackaged medicine boxes. and added that he had no contact with his father-in-law.

At no point in the testimony did Fernando claim that the resources belonged to William. Testimony very similar to that of his wife Rafaela, who said she did not know that her father had asked Robson to bring the medication. At the time, he also said that he did not know his father’s address, because he was constantly on the move.

In videos recorded on a cell phone for Esporte Espetacular on September 7, 2019, Fernando gave a very different testimony than the one they gave to the Russian police. “When they were detained at the airport, we immediately sent them the medical history of my father-in-law, the prescription, the passport, everything necessary to prove that the medicine was from my father-in-law, because in reality the medicine was from my father-in-law,” he said . .

Fernando and his wife moved to China after the player arranged a move from Spartak to Beijing Guoan in the middle of last year. Rafaela’s parents left Russia a week after Robson’s arrest. And in recent months, the Russian justice has postponed several hearings on the case.