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.
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.
Difficulties in communication and lack of knowledge of Brazilian laws are some of the factors that impact the guarantee of rights for foreign prisoners in Brazil.
During the probes, investigators found that the criminals used airplanes to transport cocaine acquired in Peru and Bolivia to Europe, using the state in Central-West Brazil for storage.
Public security authorities in Pará state, in the extreme north of Brazil, confirmed “a mass prison break attempt” Tuesday afternoon (Apr. 10) at one of the units of the Santa Izabel Prison Complex, outside state capital Belém.
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