A court in Brazil ruled the 40-year-old is to serve his sentence in his homeland despite the offence being carried out in Italy in 2013.
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In a statement, the Brazilian ministry confirmed it has received such a request without naming the player.
Robinho, 37, was accused of raping a woman in her 20s at an Italian nightclub in 2013.
The verdict relates back to an incident which took place on January 2, 2013 involving a 22-year-old Albanian woman.
The Brazilian international was convicted of rape in 2017, as outlined by The Guardian, with a nine-year jail sentence handed down by the courts, but his appeal process with the Italian courts has been ongoing in the years since.
The former Brazil and AC Milan striker was one of five men found guilty of assaulting a 22-year-old Albanian woman at a Milan nightclub in 2013