"Broa"), revealed that Peralta had also approached him for the job, but he refused out of patriotism and because his brother had died of a heart attack when Brazil won the Jules Rimet Trophy.
Hernández denied the accusation, and the traces of gold found after an analysis of his foundry did not match the material of the trophy.
Antonio Setta died in a car accident in 1985, as he was going to the police central to testify on the crime.
Juan Carlos Hernández, who had bought a luxurious estate in the upper-class Rio neighborhood of Humaitá shortly after the theft, fled to France and was arrested in 1998 at a bus station in São Paulo for drug trafficking (he had also served jail time in France for the same offence).
He was freed from jail in 2005, having never served the penalty for receiving stolen goods that he would incur for the trophy.