Brazil won't extradite Robinho but can execute rape term

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 3 - Brazil can't extradite former AC Milan and Brazil star Robinho to serve a nine year term for group rape handed down in Italy but it can execute that sentence in his home country, local sources told ANSA Thursday.
    Article Five of the Brazilian Constitution prohibits extradition for any Brazilian citizen apart from exceptions that do not apply in Robinho's case.
    But Rome, which asked to extradited the former player at the beginning of October, can request his term be served in a Brazilian jail, the sources said.
    The conviction over the gang rape of a 23-year-old Albanian woman in a Milan night club on January 22, 2013, became definitive when the supreme Court of Cassation upheld it in January this year.
    The ministry also requested the extradition of one of Robinho's friends, Ricardo Falco, another Brazilian, in relation to the case.
    Robinho, 38, played for Milan between 2010 and 2014, scoring 25 goals in 108 appearances.
    He has 100 Brazil caps and 28 goals for his country. (ANSA).