The news has shaken the Brazilian headlines in terms of politics and soccer.
According to some testimonies, former Brazilian soccer player Rivaldo and Neymar Jr.’s sister, Rafaella Santos, have been involved in the riots and coup attempts after Lula da Silva‘s presidential victory in Brazil.
The Prosecutor’s Office has accused these two people of financing these coup attempts, according to witnesses.
The marches were against Lula da Silva‘s victory over Bolsonaro, with suggestions of corruption having taken hold of a percentage of the Brazilian population.
Rivaldo and Rafaella Santos are at the center of investigations by the Federal Police, who have opened a file on everything that happened last January 8, when Lula da Silva became president of Brazil after the elections.
The followers of Jair Bolsonaro, former president of Brazil, mobilized en masse to the Green Room of the Chamber of Deputies, the Federal Supreme Court and the Planalto Palace.
These mobilizations created disputes, riots and arrests in the country and, when statements were taken from the detainees, they confessed that the former Barcelona striker and the sister of Neymar Jr. were among the people who financed these coup attempts.
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Three people were arrested and, one of them, revealed that one of the people behind the coup is a Brazilian artist named Salomao Vieira.
There is a warrant for his arrest and imprisonment by the Brazilian government, but he is hiding in Paraguay, according to the Brazilian media outlet Veja.
Rivaldo is accused of having given almost 10,000 euros to the cause
One of those arrested confessed that Rivaldo and Rafaella Santos were people who financed these marches in support of Jair Bolsonaro.
According to the testimony, the ex-footballer and world champion with Brazil would have donated 50,000 reais (about 9,500 euros), but Rivaldo‘s legal team contradicts this version, pointing out that he helped with 2,000 reais (380 euros) to “needy people in the church”.
As for Neymar Jr.’s sister, Rafaella Santos, her legal team declared that the Brazilian did not send any money for the demonstrations.