It took five days for Dani Alves’s entourage to raise the million euros that the Barcelona Court imposed on him as bail to be released from provisional prison. After a weekend of intense face-to-face and telephone meetings, the defense of the footballer, sentenced to four and a half years in prison for rape, has finally managed to deposit the money this Monday in an account of the court that sentenced him and has now released him. provisional while the appeals that the parties have presented against the sentence are resolved. Section 21 of the Barcelona Court confirmed this Monday through the communication department of the TSJC that it has received the amount of the bail. The money that the footballer has finally deposited does not come from the funds that must be returned to him by the Treasury or from a bank, according to sources in the area.
The court has already issued the order agreeing to release him once it has considered that what was agreed on March 20 has been complied with. In the resolution, the judges recall Alves’ obligation to appear every Friday before the secretariat of section 21 of the Provincial Court, the prohibition of leaving Spanish territory. Furthermore, they emphasize the need to inform the Brazilian Consulate in Barcelona of the veto to leave the country in case the footballer requests a new passport. If he does not comply with these conditions, the court warns Alves that his freedom would be revoked and he would return to prison.
On Friday, the player’s lawyer, Inés Guardiola, managed to get the lawyer from the administration of justice in room 21 of the Barcelona Court to extend the deadline by one hour to make the payment and try to obtain his release before the weekend. But it was impossible.
Alves and his team had the commitment of Neymar’s family who had promised to leave them the money again, but the pressure received in Brazil and the threat of losing sponsors slammed that door shut. From that moment on, both Guardiola and the rest of the lawyers working for Alves tried to achieve various sources of financing. From a credit in a banking entity to a loan in non-banking circles, using in both cases the guarantee of the collection of the first six million euros that the Tax Agency will return to the player.
On Wednesday, March 20, the Barcelona Court made public the conditional release document, which was not unanimous, since it had the dissenting vote of one of the three magistrates who opposed the release.
