After being accused of participating in a bicheiro plan, Emerson Sheik faces arrest

Former player allegedly involved in money laundering, according to MPRJ

Emerson Sheik, a former footballer who played for Corinthians, Flamengo and Fluminense, among other big clubs, will have to comply with some precautionary measures, after being denounced by the Prosecutor of the State of Rio de Janeiro for helping bookie Bernardo Bello launder money.

Last Friday, the MPRJ carried out an operation to arrest Bernardo Bello. The perpetrator has not been found and is on the run. Sheik and seven other people were charged with crimes related to Bernardo Bello. The justice has accepted the complaint and the former player and the other defendants have become defendants and, consequently, risk arrest.

According to the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (Gaeco), the former player was involved in a real estate deal with the offender which consisted of an “exchange” of a Sheik penthouse for a Bello house in Barra da Tijuca, area Rio nobleman. The former striker would have received separate money in the deal.

Gaeco claims that Sheik allegedly received BRL 473,500 in cash, improperly, in four bank deposits. The two were accused of concealing and dissimulating the origin of amounts derived, directly or indirectly, from animal gambling and slot machines. The link between the former player and the bicheiro was discovered through the violation of Bernardo Bello’s banking secrecy.

Sheik retired from football in 2018, the former player has made a career in major Brazilian football clubs such as Flamengo, Fluminense, Botafogo and Corinthians, where he was champion of the Libertadores and the Club World Cup. He is currently a commentator for the “Arena” program on SBT.

Source: Terra

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