Edinho (real name Edson Cholbi do Nascimento), the son of Brazil football legend-Pele has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for laundering money raised from drug trafficking.
Edinho who was first arrested in 2005 and has served a sentence for drug trafficking offences, in addition to having links with a notorious drug dealer in the city of Santos will serve the 33 years himself.
Currently, Edinho works as a goalkeeping coach at Santos, his father’s old club where he once played as a goalkeeper.
Edinho who must have caused pain to his father with these charges is reported to have said; he is a drug addict but has denied the trafficking charges levelled against him.