Robinho had his sentence reduced by 160 days after the São Paulo court accepted the request for remission made by the former player’s defense, sentenced to nine years in prison for rape in Italy.
The decision was published on Wednesday (14) by the São Paulo Court of Justice. Robinho is imprisoned at the Limeira Resocialization Center (SP), in the interior of the state.
“He worked and studied. Because of this, he was entitled to a 160-day reduction in his reprimand,” said Mario Rossi Vale, Robinho’s lawyer.
The former Santos player has been in prison since March 2024 for the gang rape of an Albanian woman in a nightclub in Milan. The crime took place in 2013, when the former striker was playing for Milan.
In November last year, the court had already reduced Robinho’s sentence by 69 days. The action was due to the 11 courses taken by the former player, in addition to 464 hours of high school classes and reading five books.
In 2014, Robinho admitted to having had sexual relations with the victim, but denied sexual violence.
Still in 2020, when he had already been convicted in the first instance, he agreed to return to Santos. The club, however, suspended the contract with the striker days later due to pressure from fans and the press over the case.
In 2022, Robinho was sentenced in the third and final instance of Italian justice to nine years in prison. However, he was never arrested because he was already in Brazil, which does not extradite its citizens. Therefore, Italy asked Brazil to judge the possibility of the former player serving his sentence on Brazilian soil.
In Brazil, Robinho was sentenced to nine years in prison for the crime of rape committed in Italy. He has been in prison since March 2024 and, on November 17, he was transferred from Penitentiary II in Tremembé to the Resocialization Center in Limeira (SP).
