Slapped With $3,300,000 Punishment, Al Hilal’s Neymar Wants Authorities to Apologize to Him

It’s been two weeks of extremes for Brazilian soccer star Neymar. The Al Hilal forward surpassed Brazil legend Pele’s goal-scoring record for the Selecao earlier this month. However, recently Neymar has reportedly been sanctioned by local authorities in Brazil. The soccer icon has reportedly been fined approximately $3.3 million for violating environmental regulations. Now, in a recent turn of events, Neymar wants the Brazilian authorities to issue an apology.

The reported infractions that took place during the construction of Neymar’s mansion in the city of Mangaratiba, included the construction of an artificial lake, river water diversion, earth movement, and vegetation suppression. But now, as per recent reports, Neymar’s representatives have asked for an apology from the municipality of the Brazilian city.

Neymar’s lawyers ask for retraction from municipal authorities regarding mansion construction incident

Neymar’s sprawling mansion cost the soccer star over $10 million. But as reported earlier, the forward was set to be fined nearly $3.3 million for the illegal construction activities surrounding the mansion in Portobello, Mangaratiba.

Mangaratiba City Hall released a statement that read: “The Department of the Environment, in addition to applying the fines considering the environmental damage caused, as well as the disrespect for the environmental laws in force, have notified the facts found to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Civil Police, the Environmental Protection Police Station, and other environmental control bodies.”

However, now Neymar’s representatives have hit back citing: “the abuse of power and illegality in the action of the municipal authorities.” This is according to a report in UOL Brazil, where Neymar’s lawyers further cited: “We ask for the obligation of representatives of the municipality to publicly recant, clarifying the reality of the facts, in the same way, they disclosed the operation on their personal social network”,

The UOL report states that Neymar’s father, Neymar da Silva Santos, was also arrested in the raid made by Mangaratiba City Hall and the Civil Police.

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Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding his mansion, Neymar did have a remarkable international break for Brazil.

Neymar gets custom-made boots from Puma and much-awaited Al Hilal debut

Following the former PSG forward’s groundbreaking achievement of eclipsing Pele’s goal tally for Brazil, the sports brand Puma created a custom pair of boots for the forward.

The boots, called the ‘NJR 78 Future’, have depictions of a young Neymar drawn on one boot and his current look on the other. The boots also have the quote “History does not repeat itself”, written on them. This was to commemorate Neymar’s 78th and 79th goals for Brazil, beating Pele’s record of 77.

Nevertheless, now Neymar will look to get back to soccer in Saudi Arabia having only just made his debut for his new club Al Hilal.

Neymar came on as a substitute in the 64th minute in Al Hilal’s 6-1 win over Al Riyadh, bagging an assist. Now, it looks like Neymar will try and push Al Hilal to challenge for the SPL title.

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