Brazilian Football Legend Ronaldinho Arrested Over False Passport

Former Brazilian footballer and a legend Ronaldinho has been arrested for possessing a false passport.

Ronaldinho was arrested alongside his brother Roberto Assis in Paraguayan capital and were not taken to the police station but remained under custody and are obliged to go to the prosecutor’s office on Thursday.

Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho has been arrested in Paraguay after he along with his brother were caught with illegal passports.Arguably one of the greatest to have ever played the ‘beautiful game’, Ronaldinho, 39, and his brother Roberto de Assis, 49, were found presidential suite at the Resort Yacht and Golf Club, some 15km south of the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion. He said that he was in the country for a charity event.

“(Ronaldinho and his brother) are not being detained, they are still under judicial investigation and they have to testify. Then it will be decided whether they will be arrested or not,” Paraguay’s interior minister Euclides Acevedo told ESPN Brasil.

He further added that the pair believe that they were tricked by a man who was accompanying them, who has since been arrested and are cooperating in the investigation.

“Mr Ronaldinho has a false passport. That is a crime and that’s why his arrest has been ordered,” Paraguay’s interior minister Euclides Acevedo told local radio station AM 1080. “I respect his sports popularity, but the law needs to be respected no matter who you are.”