FILE PHOTO: Brazilian soccer player Robinho arrives at Guarulhos International airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 28, 2015. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker
MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court sentenced former AC Milan and Brazil forward Robinho in absentia to nine years in prison on Thursday after convicting him of taking part in a gang rape of an Albanian woman in 2013.
A Milan court ruled that Robinho and five other Brazilians assaulted the woman, who was 22 at the time, after plying her with alcohol in a discotheque. The whereabouts of Robinho's five companions is not known, so their trial has been put on hold.
