Gulf News Mourinho sentence suspended for one year

MADRID (Reuters) – Juventus striker Cristiano Ronaldo and Spanish star Lionel Messi have been sentenced to one year in prison and suspended for up to one year in prison, as well as a fine of up to To € 2 million. Taxes during his stay in Spain as a coach of Real Madrid. Mourinho, who was recently sacked from Manchester United, oversaw Real Madrid 2010 and 2013, with a tax of 1.6 million euros for 2011 and 1.7 million euros for 2012.

In addition to the fine of about 2 million euros, the coach, who has no team since his dismissal from United in December, will pay his image tax for 2011 and 2012 for a total of 3.3 million euros.

The Portuguese paid € 462,000 in July and still owe € 2.84 million to the tax authorities, in accordance with an agreement with the Public Prosecutor's Office, which indicated that he had not opposed the payment of 1,14 € million by Mourinho in 2015. This agreement must be approved by the magistrate to become the case behind Mourinho, who achieved during the three seasons of supervision of the Spanish championship of Real Madrid (2012) and the Spanish Cup (2011 ). The lawsuits initiated in Portugal are part of the Spanish judicial system aimed at combating tax evasion in the world of football. The Argentine Lionel Messi of Barca, as well as former Real Madrid and Juventus, have now found the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo to reach a similar agreement with the Spanish justice. Mourinho, 56, appeared in December 2016 in the Football Lex documents, unveiled after an investigation into a fraud in football.

The International Federation of Investigative Journalism, which led the investigation, accused Mourinho of "concealing 12 million euros of tax on a Swiss account in the name of". 39, a fictitious company registered in the British Virgin Islands ". But Georges Mundiche, who owns both Mourinho and Ronaldo, denied any form of fraud on the part of the Portuguese coach and confirmed that, like his compatriot Juventus, "he fully respects his obligations to the Spanish and British authorities." .

Replace the prison sentence with an additional fine

According to the agreement reached between Mourinho and the Spanish authorities, the Portuguese coach replaced the one-year prison sentence with a suspended fine of 182500 euros. Mourinho followed Ronaldo who, last month, replaced the two-year suspended sentence with another financial sentence, adding to a fine imposed by the Madrid court.

The Portuguese star returned to Madrid on January 22 to travel to Turin, where he was fined 3.2 million euros and sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence of 356,000 euros. As a rule, people sentenced to imprisonment for up to two years in Spain are exempt from punishment if there are no precedents in their files. If an agreement with the tax authorities had not been concluded to pay 18.8 million euros, Ronaldo would have been sentenced to a much harsher sentence of 28 million euros and a sentence of three and a half years in prison , according to the specialized union of the Ministry of Finance.