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Published 15:09 4 Jan 2022 GMT
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The Portuguese international's career has been marred by off-field controversy, with the former Sporting CP man standing trial in 2018 for an altercation in a bar in Valencia in November 2017, with the player allegedly brandishing a pistol while making threats.
He was arrested again in February 2018 for allegedly tying up and torturing a man in his home alongside two others, before going to the victim's house to burgle it.
Semedo was charged with attempted murder and placed in preventive detention for the latter incident.
After paying bail of €30,000 in July 2018, he was released from prison. Facing a maximum sentence of 15-and-a-half years, he confessed two years later to kidnap, robbery, wounding and illegal firearm possession.
As a result, he was fined €46,000 and banned from entering Spain for the next eight years.
In August 2021, Semedo was arrested in Athens after a 17-year-old girl filed gang rape allegations following a night out in Oropos, Greece.
Police reportedly arrested another man who was accused of leading the girl back to Semedo's house where the actions allegedly took place.
The defender was released from custody days later after paying a €10,000 bond.
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