{"id":27346,"date":"2014-06-01T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=27346"},"modified":"2014-06-01T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T14:06:53","slug":"money-laundering-peles-son-edinho-bags-33-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/money-laundering-peles-son-edinho-bags-33-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Money laundering: Pele\u2019s son Edinho bags 33 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<p>The son of the Brazilian football legend Pele has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for laundering money raised from drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Edinho is a retired footballer who played goalkeeper for Pele\u2019s old club, Santos, in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>He was first arrested in 2005 and has served a sentence for drug trafficking offences and links with a notorious drug dealer in the city of Santos.<\/p>\n<p>He says he is a drug addict but denies the trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was issued by a judge in the nearby coastal city of Praia Grande, in Sao Paulo state.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian media have not been able to contact Edinho, whose real name is Edson Cholbi do Nascimento, but they say he is expected to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Edinho, 43, works as a goalkeeping coach at Santos.<\/p>\n<p>Pele, or Edson Arantes do Nascimento, played all his professional career in Brazil for Santos.<\/p>\n<p>Playing for Brazil, he won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and was acclaimed as the greatest footballer of his generation.<\/p>\n<p>He retired in 1974, but made a comeback a year later for New York Cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>Edinho is Pele\u2019s third son from his first marriage. He was five when the family moved to New York to play for Cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>When he returned to Brazil he decided to pursue a career in professional football \u2013 as a goalkeeper, much to his father\u2019s surprise.<\/p>\n<p>He was Santos\u2019 goalkeeper in 1995 when the team reached the Brazilian league final, losing the title to Botafogo.<\/p>\n<p>His detention and alleged involvement with drug gangs took most people in Brazil by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Pele, now 73, went to visit his son several times in jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod willing, justice will be done. There is not a shred of evidence against my son,\u201d he said in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Edinho said that his father was his idol.<\/p>\n<p>Four other people have also been convicted for many laundering, including a man accused of controlling much of the drug trafficking in the region \u2013 Ronaldo Duarte Barsotti, known as Naldinho.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The son of the Brazilian football legend Pele has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for laundering money raised from drug trafficking. 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