Dani Alves Pays One Million Euro Bail, Released from Jail
The 40-year-old Brazilian has left prison after paying a large sum of money.
The Barcelona Court has ordered the release of footballer Dani Alves, already notified to all parties, after he deposited the one million euros bail imposed by the court last Wednesday, so his release from prison is
presumed imminent.
In a court order, the 21st section of the Barcelona Court has confirmed that Alves' defense has already deposited the one million euros bail, so his freedom has been agreed upon, meeting the requirement for him to leave Brians 2 prison, where he has been in preventive detention for the last 14 months.
Alves has been in preventive detention since January 20, 2023, for the rape of a young woman in the bathrooms of a reserved area in the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on the early morning of December 30, 2022, for which the
Barcelona Court has sentenced him in the first instance to four and a half years in prison.
The 21st section of the Barcelona Court agreed last Wednesday, with the dissenting vote of one of the three judges, to allow Alves to leave prison when he paid a bail of one million euros, while the appeals against the
sentence that convicted him of rape are resolved.
Once the payment and delivery of the passports of the footballer -Spanish and Brazilian- imposed by the court as a precautionary measure have been credited, the Court has already notified Alves' release to the duty judge
of Martorell (Barcelona), although it has been executed directly at the offices of Brians 2 prison.
For its part, the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Barcelona has filed an appeal against Alves' bail release - the victim's lawyer also announced that she would do so - since the reasons for the preventive detention of the Brazilian footballer a year ago are still valid.
As reported last Friday by the public ministry, it considers that the risk of flight by the footballer occurs "even more intensively in view of the fact that Mr. Alves has been convicted as the responsible author of a sexual assault crime to a sentence of 4 years and 6 months in prison."
Once the release of the former FC Barcelona footballer has been ordered, it is expected that he will leave Brians 2 prison this same Monday, possibly starting at 4:00 p.m., as reported to EFE by legal sources.
The Barcelona Court obliges Alves to appear every Friday - or the previous working day if it is a holiday - before the secretary of the 21st section while the measure is not revoked, and he must provide a telephone number to be reachable.
He is also prohibited from leaving Spanish territory, for which the court has ordered it to be communicated immediately to the Consulate of Brazil in Barcelona in case the footballer requests the issuance of a new passport, as well as to the Law Enforcement Agencies, with European scope.
In addition, the athlete is prohibited from communicating or approaching more than 1,000 meters from the victim, and the court has reminded in the order that the breach of any of the precautionary measures imposed could result in the revocation of provisional liberty.
Alves has been able to raise the amount after almost a week, in which he has had multiple difficulties to deposit the money, more than expected in someone with the economic capacity presumed of an elite footballer.
The footballer's defense had to deposit the bail money this Monday from 09.00 to 14.00 hours, something that if not done would have meant spending at least one more day in prison, but once the bail was deposited, the
Barcelona Court will allow him to leave prison.
Although the defense had requested 'in extremis' last Friday an additional hour of margin, until 15.00, to be able to deposit the bail, to which the Barcelona Court agreed, finally it did not arrive on time to deposit the one million euros and Alves spent the weekend in prison.
In addition to the difficulties due to the high sum, one of the highest remembered in Spanish courts, and the complexity of the procedures to move such amount of money, a third factor has been added, such as the reputational damage that may involve financially endorsing a convicted rapist.
