Dani Alves was provisionally released last Monday, January 25 after spending more than two years in Brians prison. Alves's departure occurs while waiting for a final sentence to be handed down in the sexual assault case for which he was initially sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison.
To obtain his provisional release, in addition to depositing his passport, the Brazilian paid a bail of 1 million euros, which unleashed speculation about the identity of the person who provided him with the money.
A series of rumors pointed to Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer for Atlético de Madrid and Alves' former teammate at FC Barcelona, as a possible benefactor. However, these assumptions have been categorically denied by Sebastien Ledure, Depay's agent.
"This is fake news. It is fake news, it is not true at all," Laure explained to Telecinco this Tuesday, in a move that, without a doubt, sought to put a gap between her client and Alves.
Memphis Depay himself had commented in recent days on his closeness to players with legal problems such as Quincy Promes, Benjamin Mendy or Dani Alves: "I will never disappoint my friends and my family. This does not mean that I agree with everything they do, But I will not abandon you.”
These statements revealed Depay's loyalty to his friends, regardless of the legal situations they face. Thus, as Alves was unable to raise the money himself, and Neymar's family denied having helped him, speculation began to point to Memphis.
Despite the denials and rumors, the origin of the million euros paid by Alves for his release remains a mystery: it is still not known who could have been the person who lent him such an amount to be free.
