The coach of the Spanish football team Real Madrid, the Italian Carlo Ancelotti (65 years old), is to be tried by the Iberian authorities, being accused of fiscal fraud of over one million euros, informs the British publication The Guardian.
Carlo Ancelotti sees danger to the horizon
The technician will present himself on Wednesday in court to be tried on the charge of fraud of the Fiscal Fisc of over 1 million euros, being undeclared earnings resulting from image rights in 2014 and 2015.
Prosecutors claim that “Don Carlo” has used ghost companies outside Spain to soften the Spanish Treasury and to hide the real beneficiary of the revenues from the exploitation of image rights.
Spanish resident from a fiscal point of view, the coach declared his earnings from the club, but omitted the revenues collected from the sale of his image rights. Prosecutors claim that it did not pay a total tax of 1,062,079 euros for the sale of these rights. Ancelotti, holder of the Champions League, denied the accusations and claims to have “Total trust in law and justice”.
Messi and Ronaldo, trapped by tax
Ancelotti is not the only important football personality that has been watched by the tax authorities in Spain in recent years. In July 2016, the Argentine Lionel Messi and his father, Jorge, were sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for the evading of Lionel’s image tax rights in Barcelona. Both were exempt from prison because the penalties under two years in Spain should not be executed and had no criminal record.
Six years ago, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo acknowledged that he committed tax fraud while playing for Real Madrid and agreed to pay a fine of 18.8 million euros (16.5 million pounds), after concluding an agreement with prosecutors and tax authorities, in exchange for a 23 -month -prison sentence. In February 2019, Potughezul José Mourinho received a suspended prison sentence and agreed to pay fines of 2.2 million euros (1.9 million pounds), after recognizing tax fraud as a manager at Real Madrid.
The Colombian singer Shakira has also been the subject of long fiscal procedures in Spain. In July 2019, the then partner of Shakira, Gerard Piqué, was forced to pay 2.1 million euros fiscal arrears and fines for tax evasion related to the payments of image, while the central defender played in Barcelona. The fine was annulled two years later by the Supreme Court of Spain.
