Swimming against the environmental rules can make quite a splash in your bank account.
“Among the dozens of infractions that were noticed at the player’s property are the start of an unauthorized construction which requires environmental control; capture of a river course and detouring it without authorization; moving rock and sand; supressing vegetation without authorization and non-compliance of an embargo,” Mangaratiba city hall said in a statement, according to the AP.
That last infraction—noncompliance of an embargo—is related to the fact that Neymar went for a swim in the lake on Friday even though officials had told him not to. The AP noted that Brazilian media had covered a party Neymar threw that day to celebrate the lake being completed. Genesis Ecossistemas, the company that built the lake, also
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