For: EFE Posted Jan 24, 2023, 2:55 pm EST
The criminal lawyer Cristóbal Martell will defend the former Barça player Dani Alves in the case opened in a Barcelona court for the alleged rape of a young woman in the bathroom of a nightclubtogether with the lawyer Miraida Puente Wilson.
As reported by the lawyer on Tuesday through a statement, after the judge’s decision to send him to prison without bail, Alves wanted to “strengthen” his defense with a specialist in criminal law, for which he has chosen the law firm run by Cristóbal Martell.
Martell is one of the most reputable lawyers in Barcelona and, as such, leads the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol and his family in the case of alleged corruption that the National Court has in its hands and has represented the soccer player Leo Messi in his litigation for tax fraud, in addition to many other cases related to economic crimes.
Miraida Puente, who advises Alves in his different companies and commercial activities, was the lawyer who assisted him in his arrest last Friday and his statement before the investigating judge, that after the appearance he agreed to send him to pretrial detention, without bail.
Dani Alves will change his defense as of this Tuesday and will be in charge of the prestigious lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, founder of Martell Abogados.
His company has handled the cases of the Pujol family, that of Leo Messi or that of FC Barcelona itself in the Neymar case. pic.twitter.com/dBuhziriat
— Diego Miranda (@_DiegoMiranda) January 24, 2023
In her statement, the lawyer recalls that she assisted the soccer player “as soon as different media outlets announced the existence of the legal case and its specific purpose, assisting with the police force and the court itself to the volunteer made available to Dani Alves.”
The footballer, the statement emphasizes, was abroad and, through the lawyer, offered to “give a statement and defend his innocence.”
Nevertheless”the development of events and the deprivation of liberty suffered” have led Alves and the lawyer to “reinforce” their defense with a specialist in criminal law, who, the statement added, “will collaborate” with Miraida Puente in the investigation and eventual trial of Alves, to “restore his honor and dignity and, in short, demonstrate his innocence of the facts that are imputed to him ”.
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