The former Brazilian soccer player is in the middle of a controversy and again in a legal conflict for a company with his name accused of fraud.
The former Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho Gaucho He denied being involved in a scam that drew national attention for deceiving victims with promises of profitable cryptocurrency investments.
The former player of Brazil and the Barcelona told lawmakers at a congressional hearing that he is not involved with the company known as 18k Ronaldinho Comércio e Participações Ltda.
“They misused my name to create the company name of this company”he stated in statements collected by the National Congress.
Ronaldinho indicated that it signed a contract with the American company 18k Watch Corporation in 2016 to create a line of watches bearing his image, the statement added, but did not specify whether the two companies were related.
In 2020the former player became a defendant in a class action filed by the Brazilian Consumer Relations Institute, which called for 300 million reais (60.66 million dollars) for damages caused to customers 18k.
That same year, Ronaldinho and his brother were arrested in Paraguayan for 171 days for using a forged passport.
The speaker of the investigation in Congress, Ricardo Silvaasked the world champion in 2002 if he had sued the company for misuse of his image, but Ronaldinho He said that his brother took care of these matters.
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