Brazilian media reported on Monday that police had captured the man, who is understood to have been in Brazil since 2012.
Brazil’s Federal Police working with Interpol reportedly captured the man last Wednesday in Prazeres, Jaboatão dos Guararapes (Recife).
Speaking informally to Brazilian police the suspect is understood to have denied the allegations brought against him, claiming the sexual act was carried out with the consent of the girl in question.
Information from the British Government, according to newspaper Público, states that in 2010 the Portuguese man carried out a “lewd act” with a 14-year-old minor.
He was sentenced in 2013 to 11 years for violating a vulnerable person.
According to the authorities the crime took place on 6 December and came to light following a statement from a psychologist, who contacted police after seeing the teen who reportedly told him she had met a boy on the internet who claimed to be 15.
After setting a date to meet up, the girl found out she had been engaging with an adult, the psychologist reportedly said, and she was raped inside the Portuguese man’s car.
The suspect is believed to have fled to Brazil while awaiting trial in freedom in the UK. Allegedly, when he realised he would be sentenced, he ran.
He reportedly married a local in Pernambuco and was living legally in the country.
Brazilian police arrested the man last week after UK Justice authorities emitted a request for his imprisonment and extradition.
Brazil’s Justice Ministry agreed and the case was taken to the South American country’s Supreme Federal Court.
An arrest warrant was issued on 26 April and both UK and Portuguese consulates have been informed of the man’s arrest.
He is being held by authorities as the extradition process unfolds.

In related news, two Portuguese men have been deported from the island of Guernsey, in the English Channel, back to Portugal for raping a woman. According to the BBC Ruben Almeida, 32, and Bruno Loreto, 34, were convicted in 2012for raping a 23-year-old woman in St. Peter Port, and were deport by the Guernsey Border Agency. Almeida is understood to have been brought back to Lisbon on 28 April, while Loreto was sent to Madeira last Monday. Almeida and Loreto denied the charges brought against them in court but were sentenced by a Guernsey judge to 10 years in prison.