Pele child Edinho sentenced to 33 years in Brazil for tax evasion

Pele's child Edinho is a resigned footballer who played goalkeeper for Pele's old club, Santos

Keep perusing the primary story

Related Stories

 Pele's child on Brazil's football future Watch

 Pele's feedback of World Cup

 Pele was examined by Brazil military

The child of the Brazilian football legend Pele has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for laundering cash raised from pill trafficking.

Edinho is a resigned footballer who played goalkeeper for Pele's old club, Santos, in the 1990s.

He was initially captured in 2005 and has served a sentence for pill trafficking offenses and connections with a famous street pharmacist in the city of Santos.

He says he is a pill fiend yet denies the trafficking charges.

The decision was issued by a judge in the close-by seaside city of Praia Grande, in Sao Paulo state.

Brazilian media have not had the capacity to contact Edinho, whose genuine name is Edson Cholbi do Nascimento, however they say he is required to claim.

Edinho, 43, fills in as a goalkeeping mentor at Santos.

US youth

Pele, or Edson Arantes do Nascimento, played all his expert profession in Brazil for Santos.

Playing for Brazil, he won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and was acclaimed as the best footballer of his era.

Pele, 2 April 2014 Pele won the World Cup three times with Brazil and scored more than 1,200 objectives in his profession

He resigned in 1974, however made a rebound a year later for New York Cosmos.

Edinho is Pele's third child from his first marriage. He was five when the family moved to New York to play for Cosmos.

When he came back to Brazil he chose to seek after a profession in expert football - as a goalkeeper, much to his father's amazement.

He was Santos' goalkeeper in 1995 when the group arrived at the Brazilian class last, losing the title to Botafogo.

His detainment and affirmed association with pill groups surprised most individuals in Brazil.

Pele, now 73, went to visit his child a few times in prison.

"God willing, equity will be carried out. There is not a shred of confirmation against my child," he said in 2006.

Edinho said that his father was his object of worship.

Four other individuals have likewise been sentenced for some washing, including a man blamed for controlling a great part of the medication trafficking in the locale - Ronaldo Duarte Barsotti, known as Naldinho.