Manchester City star Sergio Aguero denies his granny was caught up in drugs bust in star’s childhood home in Buenos Aires
Reports in Argentina claimed 200 grams of marijuana were discovered in the property during raids on six houses
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SERGIO AGUERO has angrily denied reports drugs were found during a police search of his granny home.
Several newspaper reports in his native Argentina claimed 200 grams of marijuana were discovered in the property during raids on six houses which led to the seizure of other drugs, firearms and stolen mobile phones.
The run-down property in Quilmes near Buenos Aires was described as the place where the Manchester City ace spent much of his childhood.
, picked up by respected papers abroad including Spanish daily ABC, said Aguero’s paternal grandmother had not been arrested but another unnamed relative had been held.
But last night the £35million striker nicknamed 'Kun' insisted in a furious rebuttal of the police seizure claims that his paternal grandmother was dead - and his other granny lived in Tucuman an 800-mile, 13-hour drive away from the scene of the reported raid.
He tweeted: “I don’t normally respond to rumours but in this case they involve my family and I cannot ignore them.
“The newspaper reports that are circulating are false. My paternal grandparents sadly died and my maternal grandparents live in Tucuman.”
One Argentinian TV station even sent a reporter to broadcast from outside the property in a neighbourhood called Los Eucaliptos.
He said during a live link which was later posted on YouTube: “This is the house of the grandmother of Kun Aguero.
“It’s inside this neighbourhood which is one of the most dangerous in Quilmes.
“It was one of six properties searched by police at dawn on Tuesday.
“At this house they found 200 grams of marijuana cut up and prepared for sale. A relative of Aguero’s was arrested.”
Despite the fact the footballer is obviously the best-placed person to decide whether his paternal grannie is dead or alive, the reporter continued: “The paternal granny, the mother of Aguero’s dad Leonel, stayed in her house and was not detained.
“She’s an elderly person who is more than 70 years old and she’s been living here for a while.
“This neighbourhood is where the footballer was from the age of three to 11.”
It was not immediately clear today/yesterday (FRI) why so many Argentinian papers had carried the same story rubbished by the Man City star, although some attributed the information to unnamed police sources.
One paper which published Aguero’s angry tweets headlined its article: “Kun Aguero refutes what the police say.”