According to the Spanish media, Dani Alves spent one of his first nights of freedom partying until 5 in the morning with friends.
The former Barcelona player left Brians 2 prison this Monday after spending 15 months behind bars awaiting his trial for raping a woman in December 2022.
The 40-year-old was found guilty in February of this year and sentenced to four and a half years in prison, but Alves is in the process of appealing the verdict, and will do so from his own home after accepting a series of conditions imposed by the court.
Alves has renounced his Spanish and Brazilian passports and will have mandatory court visits once a week to maintain his freedom, after first paying bail of €1m (£850,000).
But after doing so, the disgraced player wanted to make the most of life outside prison walls and is believed to have celebrated his father’s recent birthday in some style.
Dani Alves is believed to have received family and friends until 5am days after his release from Barcelona’s Brians 2 prison.
The former footballer has returned to his £4.5m villa in the Esplugues de Llobregat district
It is believed that Alves was celebrating the birthday of his father Domingos Alves Da Silva.
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According to the Spanish television program ‘Esto es Vida’, the day after his release, Alves received his family and friends at his home in Esplugues de Llobregat after having attended a dinner in Barcelona in honor of patriarch Domingos Alves Da Silva. without him.
After dinner, the group headed to Alves’ £4.5 million villa, and it is believed the festivities will continue until five in the morning.
The former defender could have been released earlier if he had not had difficulties finding the money to pay his high bail.
Alves’ lawyer, Inés Guardiola, has said that the Brazilian has two bank accounts in Spain, one with no balance and another with 51,000 euros (£44,000), with a judicial seizure of 50,000 euros (£43,000).
Guardiola claimed last year that his client “is bankrupt” and has a “negative bank balance of £17,000”, despite reportedly once having a fortune of £47m.
Sport reported that Alves’ accounts in Brazil have also been blocked due to issues with his ex-wife Dinorah Santana.
However, Alves is expected to receive €9.2m (£7.9m) after his tax lawyer Fernando Mota won four cases against the Spanish tax agency.
The 40-year-old was released on bail after initially struggling to raise the €1 million needed.
His lawyer, Inés Guardiola, has previously stated that he is “bankrupt” and has a “negative balance.”
At Alves’ bail hearing it was noted that the 40-year-old was set to receive “a large sum of money” from the treasury, but has not yet received the funds.
The father of fellow Brazilian Neymar was expected to help Alves pay the money to secure his freedom, but issued a statement denying he would hand over cash after coming under political pressure in his home country.
Memphis Depay’s agent was forced to deny “false” claims on social media that the Atletico Madrid player had been the one to provide Alves with the money needed to gain his temporary freedom on Tuesday.
‘This is fake news. “It’s fake news, it’s not true at all,” Sébastien Ledure told Informativos Telecinco.
Ledure also asked to “correct at an official level” the statement, after it spread on social media on Monday.
Alves was found guilty of raping a 23-year-old woman in the bathroom of an exclusive Barcelona nightclub, Sutton, more than a year and a half ago.
The prison sentence he received, considered lenient by some critics, was much less than the nine years prosecutors demanded and the 12 years Alves’ accuser wanted if he was convicted.
The footballer’s previous attempts to obtain bail had been rejected by the courts largely because he was seen as a potential fight risk, and the player’s home country, Brazil, does not extradite citizens sentenced abroad.
Alves was found guilty of rape and sentenced to four and a half years in prison in Spain
His ex-wife Santana is among those who have spoken out against Alves being granted bail.
‘There are times when you will have to share the table with Judas, without that taking away your peace. Well me today,” she wrote on Instagram.
Santana, the mother of his two children, initially said she supported him and insisted he would never commit the crime for which he was arrested.
The sports agent later claimed she felt “used” and told Spanish television: “For me, he doesn’t exist.” For me he is dead.’