Foreign Football Cristiano Ronaldo had this morning for the court in Madrid to appear to answer for tax evasion. The Portuguese soccer star declared himself in agreement with a fine of eur 18.8 million and 23 months in prison, which he can’t effectively have to sit out.
The 33-year-old Ronaldo will not be effective in the cell to sit down. Who in Spain had no previous conviction increased, the need for imprisonment of up to two years, after all, not behind bars.
Ronaldo acknowledged debt to the evasion of taxation of income from image rights while he was still at Real Madrid played. The fraud, which accounts for more than 13 million, occurred between 2011 and 2014 through shadowy companies in the Virgin islands and in Ireland. In theory, he risked a fine of 28 million euros and 3.5 years in prison.
The Portuguese, who since last summer for Juventus comes out and yesterday played against Chievo, had been previously agreed with the Spanish tax authorities. He had hoped through a video conference, a punishment to hear, but the judge forced him to Madrid. The soccer star challenged this morning in the court on the side of his partner Georgina Rodriguez.
To the assembled media wanted to Ronaldo only to lose that “everything” was. The Portuguese star has, in addition to any other legal cats to whip. In October 2018, the United States was an investigation re-opened after a former American model, Kathryn Mayorga, him accused of rape in a hotel room in Las Vegas in 2009. That accusation denied Ronaldo with a clamp.
a lot of other football stars were just like Ronaldo in trouble with the tax authorities. So went Lionel Messi in 2016, agreed to a fine of 2 million euros and 21 months in prison for tampering with taxes.
