Ancelotti refers to Real Madrid

trainer real madridand Carlo AncelottiHe said to one of the courts that they had hidden part of his revenue from the image of the image to the Spanish treasury, that he had never thought about the fraud, and that the club was the one who suggested this form of rewards.

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Ancelotti agreed to impose fees on 6 million euros (6.5 million dollars) net for four seasons, which finally turned into two, and the club, which suggested collecting 15 percent in the image rights.

“When Madrid suggests this to me, Real Madrid put in contact with the English language advisor,” said the Italian coach at the beginning of the opinion in a court in Madrid.

He said about one of his predecessors on a seat real madridHe was sentenced to a year in prison with his suspense after announcing that he was guilty of financial fraud in 2019.

The first day of the trial lasted for about two hours and will be resumed on Thursday at 09:30. In addition to the defendant AncelottiThey announced as witnesses from his rabies Chloe McLei in the video from Los Angeles, his son David Ancelotti, and his wife, Mariana Barena.

A large part of the questions are designed to his family to find out where the coach was expelled after being expelled real madrid In May 2015, because only those who spent more than 183 days during the evaluation year in Spain must submit an income statement.

Ancelotti, 65, is facing a penalty from the Public Prosecutor’s Office for a period of four years and nine months in prison due to fraud in more than a million euros ($ 1.1 million) in photo rights in 2014 and 2015, during the first phase of Real Madrid (2013-2015), which returned in 2021 (so far).

The coach added: “I never realized that nothing was true,” before 2018, when the public ministry opened an investigation, added the coach.

Anceotti: “Pufff … he asks me a topic I do not know.”

According to the Spanish Tax Administration, Ancelotti He announced that Real Madrid coach entered him in 2014 and 2015, but not from the rights of images and other sources, such as some real estate real estate.

The revenue of the image rights was, according to the Ministry of General, which amounted to 1.2 million euros in 2014 ($ 1.3 million) and 2.9 million (3 million dollars) in 2015.

As for the Prosecutor’s Office, Ancelotti’s neglect of his tax statements was voluntary, because the Italian coach “went to” complex “and” confusing ” Translated Y Interconnected societies To direct the image rights group. “

During his statement on Wednesday, the Italian coach defended, however, that he had no mistake or that the company that was created to pay the image rights allowed him to pay fewer taxes.

Ancelotti said during a statement in which he reached an occasion before the technical questions of the technical issues of the public prosecutor.

“Pufff … asks me a topic I do not knowHe said.

Messi’s precedents, Ronaldo and Shakira

Other stars faced problems with the Spanish cabinet before Ancelotti, but nothing had to go to prison, a useful precedent for the Italian.

Thus, the Argentine football player Lionel MessiThen a large star of the FC Barcelona star in 2016 was sentenced to 2016 in prison, and he paid more than 5 million euros, although she did not fulfill the penalty due to Spanish legislation that allows the suspension of sentences under the first two years for the first crimes.

In 2018, Portuguese football player Cristiano RonaldoFrom Real Madrid, he paid a fine of 18.8 million euros and received a two -year prison sentence, which did not correspond to the absence of a criminal record.

Colombian singer ShakiraThe wife of football player Gerard Pique reached an agreement in November 2023 to avoid the financial fraud experience.

The agreement included a three -year prison sentence and a fine of 7.3 million euros due to fraud 14.5 million euros between 2012 and 2014.

Finally, in a state very similar to Ancelotti, the former player in Real Madrid and the Spanish team Xabi alonso He faced accusations of tax fraud to set the rights of his photos of a company abroad, but he was acquitted.

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