Sunday, 1 June 2014


Edinho, Son of Football Legend, Pele, has been sentenced to 33 years in Jail for money laundering raised from drug trafficking. The ruling was issued by a judge in the nearby coastal city of Praia Grande, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

43 year old Edinho(full names : Edson Cholbi do Nascimento) who works as a goalkeeping coach at Brazilian club, Santos FC, admitted to being a drug addict but denied the trafficking charges.
This is not his first time of getting into drug related problems, he was first arrested in 2005  for a drug trafficking related offence and having ties to a known drug cartel boss in Brazil. 

He has not been spotted by the media since his recent sentence and is expected to appeal.


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Written by Dondumex

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