Former Brazil and Barcelona FC defender Dani Alves has been released from jail in Barcelona, Spain, after paying €1million (£850,000) bail condition following his rape conviction.
Judges and other concerned authorities argued that the former football player posed a flight danger, so he paid the £860,000 and gave up his Brazilian and Spanish passports, according to a Spanish court.
Alves is believed to have cooperated with the other directives of the three judges, who stated that he might be released from custody despite his recent conviction for rape, by turning in his passports from Brazil and Spain, according to Mail Online.
Alves was given a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence in court after it was determined last month that he had raped a woman in a nightclub in December 2022.
The 40-year-old has been jailed by authorities looking into the rape accusation against him for the past 14 months, during which time he has been housed in the Brians II prison 45 minutes outside Barcelona.
He will now spend his first night of freedom, since January 20 of last year at his £4 million property in Esplugues de Llobregat, which is located 25 minutes west of Barcelona’s downtown.
