Featured Image Credit: Alamy & Instagram/Fede Valverde
Topics: Football, La Liga, Real Madrid, Federico Valverde
Rory O'Callaghan
Topics: Football, La Liga, Real Madrid, Federico Valverde
The partner of Real Madrid midfielder Fede Valverde claims the pair were drugged and robbed during a recent holiday in Ibiza.
Mina Bonino, who works a journalist, claims the pair were robbed of up to €10,000 (£8,464) while on holiday on the Spanish island last month.
In a lengthy statement released on Instagram, Bonino believes they were drugged with an unknown substance during the trip and claims a hired chef is suspected of being involved in the alleged robbery.
"We were told that the food could have been poisoned by the chef, so they took us to the hospital for substance testing," Bonino wrote, as reported by Spanish outlet Marca.
"When we arrived at the house, the chef was already there. He told me at that moment that there was only one key and that he was going to take it with him so that the next day he could come back to make breakfast and not bother us."
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"The next day I couldn't even get up," Bonino added.
"I sent a message to Leslie [their housekeeper] to take my son because everything was turning me upside down. I felt very bad, but I thought it was because I'm a bit of a bum and I'm in a very bad physical condition.
"Within the hour I come downstairs and see my three suitcases in the living room. There were flip-flops of mine lying around and Leslie was tidying everything up. She said to me, 'Were you looking for something?' As I still wasn't sober I must have laughed, I didn't understand a thing.
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"When we were all about to leave for the beach I said, 'I'm going to grab some money.' I opened my wallet and it was empty. Then the chef appeared and told me that when he arrived he saw everything in disarray."
Bonino says she was later taken to a hospital for tests to show if she had cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy, amphetamines or antidepressants in her blood - but she tested negative.
"So we get our house ransacked and I don't find out. We spent our first day in the hospital and were robbed by someone who saw me sleeping with everything out, and that's what disturbs me the most," Bonino added.
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Marca claim the couple moved location after the alleged robbery but remained in Ibiza for two more weeks.
Uruguay international Valverde joined Real Madrid from Uruguayan side Penarol in 2016 and has gone on to make 148 appearances for the Spanish giants.
He featured 46 times last season as Madrid won both La Liga and the Champions League.