Pele s son released from jail amid appeal

Rio de Janeiro March 2 (IANS) The son of football legend Pele will be allowed to appeal against a 13-year jail term as a free man a Brazilian judge has ruled.

Edson Cholbi Nascimento known as Edinho was originally given a 33-year prison sentence in 2014 for laundering money to a drug gang reports Xinhua news agency.

The 46-year-old was detained last week and ordered to begin serving a sentence that had been reduced to 12 years and 10 months.

But on Wednesday judge Antonio Saldanha ordered Edinho be released by Thursday evening according to the former Santos goalkeeper s lawyers.

Pele is considered one of the greatest football players of all time scoring more than 1 000 career goals and winning three World Cups.

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