Ronaldinho Gaucho and his brother Roberto on Monday they left the luxurious hotel where they were serving home confinement with direction to Asunción airport to take flight with destination to Rio de Janeiro, after almost half a year detained in Paraguay for using forged documents.
Both brothers got into a car that awaited them at the door of the Palmaroga hotel, in the historic center of the capital, and where a large group of followers and representatives of the media were waiting for them.
In fact, the car had problems leaving the place in the presence of those sympathizers, who gathered on the vehicle to take photographs of the former Barcelona player.
The brothers Ronaldo and Roberto de Assis Moreira left from there heading to a hangar at the Asunción international airport where They will take the charter flight that will take them to Brazil.
The flight was authorized last night by the National Defense Council (Codena), the official body that manages the entry and exit of the country due to the closure of borders and air blockade due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This Monday night was the first of the two brothers released after a judicial journey of almost half a year that they resolved that day with the ruling of the guarantee judge Gustavo Amarilla, which benefited them with the conditional suspension of the process.
However, the procedural exit forces Roberto, who was sentenced to two years in prison, to appear during that period, and every four months, before the judicial authorities of his country.
Also, the two brothers will have to pay about $ 200,000 in “social reparation” to terminate its processes, an amount that will be allocated to the purchase of medical supplies for the fight against COVID-19 and for a campaign to help a sick minor.
The amount will be extracted from the 1.6 million dollars that they deposited in the state-run Banco de Fomento as surety to access home confinement at the Asunción hotel in mid-April.
The brothers arrived at the Asunción airport on March 4 after leaving Sao Paulo with Brazilian documentation, although at the Paraguayan Immigration Office they exhibited Paraguayan passports and identification cards with their names and photos, which were later discovered to have been tampered with.
The former soccer player had traveled to Asunción to lend his image to a project of free medical assistance to Paraguayan children organized by a foundation chaired by businesswoman Dalia López.
The businesswoman, who picked up the two brothers at the capital airport, is a fugitive and under an international arrest warrant.
The accusations of Ronaldinho and his brother led to the prosecution of about twenty people, among them managers and officials of Migration and the Identification Directorate of the National Police allegedly linked to an illicit document manipulation business.