{"id":13887,"date":"2018-09-05T01:25:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T01:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13887"},"modified":"2018-09-05T01:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T01:25:41","slug":"mourinho-accepts-one-year-jail-sentence-in-spanish-tax-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13887","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho ‘accepts one-year jail sentence’ in Spanish tax case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has accepted a one-year prison sentence as part of a deal to settle a Spanish tax evasion case, El Mundo newspaper reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Mourinho is unlikely to serve the jail term as Spanish law states that a sentence of under two years for a first offence can be served on probation.<\/p>\n

Spanish prosecutors filed a claim against the Portuguese football coach last year on two counts of tax fraud dating back to when he coached Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

Mourinho left Real Madrid in 2013 to manage English club Chelsea for a second spell before signing with United in 2016.<\/p>\n

Spanish tax authorities allege the Mancherster United manager owed 3.3 million euros ($3.8m).<\/p>\n

Mourinho had failed to declare revenues from his image rights in his Spanish income tax declarations from 2011 and 2012, “with the aim of obtaining illicit profits,” prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

They said Mourinho had already settled a previous claim relating to his Spanish taxes after a 2014 inquiry, which resulted in a penalty of 1.15 million euros ($1.33m).<\/p>\n

But tax authorities later found that some of the information presented in that settlement was incorrect, the prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

The settlement comes amid a lengthening list of tax fraud cases involving football stars in Spain.<\/p>\n

In June, former Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> reached a similar deal<\/a> to pay a 3.2 million euro ($3.7m) fine after settling a tax evasion case with Spanish authorities.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo, 33, was also sentenced to 24 months in prison as part of the deal<\/p>\n

The Portuguese forward, formerly of Real Madrid, was accused<\/a> last year of defrauding authorities of 14.7m euros ($16.5m) in unpaid taxes between 2011 and 2014 via shell companies based in the British Virgin Islands and Ireland<\/a>, known for their low corporate tax rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2016, Barcelona favourite Lionel Messi<\/a> was found guilty<\/a> of evading nearly $5m of taxes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE: Reuters news agency<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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