Vainstein was detained at Bergamo Airport when he went to Italy at his son for a birthday.
The Latvian will be sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for non -compliance with family maintenance.
“I’m the first person in Italy to get to prison for non -payment of alimony. If I were an ordinary worker, I was never put in prison in my life, but this time I used my name,” Vainstein said in an interview with Sporta Avīze.
Now he no longer has a ban on entering Italy. He has been there this year.
“Should [cietumā] There was no time to think, the only thought was how to survive 41 days. The circumstances were not the best, the people who were in the same chapter with me, next to the cameras were not of those favorite ones, there were not those who do not pay alimony, but those who were sentenced to life imprisonment, “Wainstein said.”
Wainstein also won the Giro d’Italia stage during his career, in the Paris-Brussels cycling ride, as well as won third place in the prestigious Flanders’ cycling and the Paris-Rube bike ride.
The cyclist closed his professional career in 2004.
In 2016, he moved back to Latvia and shortly afterwards became the head coach of the Latvian cycling team, but in five months later he left the post.
During his career, Vainstein confirmed himself as an outstanding sprint master, with the main success of the sprint from the big group.
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