Neymar's father to pay for Dani Alves' release on bail

Former Brazil international footballer Dani Alves is set to be released from jail pending an appeal against his rape conviction in exchange for posting bail of one million euros ($1.08 million), a Barcelona court said Wednesday.

The ruling came a day after his lawyer requested the 40-year-old's release on grounds he had already served a quarter of his four-and-a-half-year sentence in pre-trial detention following his arrest in January 2023.

Dani Alves' accounts were frozen in the judicial process and it seemed impossible that the full-back could pay the bail out of his own pocket, but according to 'La Vanguardia', Neymar's father will be the one who will be in charge of depositing the bail of one million euros so that the former footballer can be released from prison.

Neymar's father has already resorted to this trick to pay the 150,000 euros in compensation to the victim affected by his crime of sexual assault. Once Neymar's father deposits the bail and a new order is issued approving it, Dani Alves will be released on bail.

Alves was convicted on 22 February for raping a woman at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona. The events took place on New Year's Eve 2022 and the player was arrested on 20 January 2023 after being summoned to testify.

Since then he has remained in prison, so he has already spent more than a year in prison, which will be subtracted from his sentence once he is released.