TIL Desk Sports/ The police in Brazil are investigating whether a model filed a false case of rape against football star and Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar. Any person not telling the truth can be punished and “there is, indeed, an investigation against her”, Albano de Paula Santos, director of the Judicial Police Department, told the media on Tuesday.
The Sao Paulo state civil police on June 12 also filed a complaint for slander against the model, Najila Trindade Mendes de Souza. The complaint was filed at the sixth police station in Santo Amaro, in the south of Sao Paulo, after commissioner Jose Fernando Bessa considered accusations made by the young woman during an interview with television station.
In the interview on the program ”Conexao Reporter,” the model accused the civil police of corruption. On Monday, the Sao Paulo Civil Police did not file criminal charges against Neymar after concluding a preliminary investigation into the model”s accusation of rape by the soccer player during an alleged sexual assault on May 15 in a hotel in Paris.