Seeking to avoid imprisonment, Robinho’s defense filed a habeas corpus request with the Federal Supreme Court, which Justice Luiz Fux denied in a monocratic decision.
The charges filed by prosecutors list the crimes of money laundering, misrepresentation, and use of false documents within the scope of Operation Nexus, conducted by the Civil Police of the Federal District.
According to the ruling, once the approval process concludes at the Superior Court of Justice, Robinho must be arrested in Santos, São Paulo state, where he resides.
At least nine people are alleged to have benefited from a scheme set up by the former president’s aide-de-camp Mauro Cid, including his wife and three daughters, the former president himself and his daughter, and representative Gutemberg Reis de Oliveira.
According to his vaccination card, the former president received his vaccine on July 19, 2021, in São Paulo, but he was not actually there on that date.
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