Armed police raid on Cristiano Ronaldo's tenant Ricardo Alves
Posted Friday, May 06, 2011 by Metro.co.uk
A flat owned by Cristiano Ronaldo has been raided by armed police hunting a violent criminal.
The apartment, near Lisbon, was unwittingly rented by the 26-year-old Real Madrid star to Ricardo Alves – wanted over a series of carjackings and robbing ATMs.
Mr Alves, 28, was reportedly never late paying the rent.
Real Madrid star Ronaldo, 26, bought the two-storey flat in Alcochete, near the Portuguese capital Lisbon in 2008 while still playing for Manchester United.
A female neighbour said: 'Three guys lived there. They were always driving different, powerful cars.
'But I never suspected anything.'
The gang are said to have used the high-powered stolen cars to escape after robbing cash machines in crimes which earn them £900,000-a-year.
They are suspected of robbing seven cash machines last month alone.
Police are thought to have informed Ronaldo, who earns £250,000-a-week at Real Madrid, through his agent after the raid.
Last November Ronaldo was stunned after a neighbour in Madrid was arrested on suspicion of being one of the world's biggest drug barons.
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