Ronaldo closes the page of tax evasion by accepting the penalty. Prison and fine!

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After a busy year of negotiations and compromises, Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has been fined and sentenced to a suspended prison sentence in case of tax evasion in Spain on Tuesday.

And followed the Portuguese star Juventus Cristiano Ronaldo Former Barcelona captain Lionel Messi has been replaced by a two-year suspended sentence for tax evasion in Spain.

The Portuguese star returned to Madrid last summer to settle in Turin to defend the colors of the Italian champion Juventus to appear in court who sentenced her to a fine of 3 , 2 million euros, in addition to having agreed to replace the two – year prison sentence by suspension of execution of 356 thousand 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.

The court spokesman was not able to determine whether the amount of 3.2 million euros had been settled in June between the Ronaldo defense team and the Spanish financial authorities , so the Portuguese star had to pay 18.8 million euros for tax evasion.

AFP tried to contact the Spanish tax authorities, but they refused to comment.

Dozens of journalists and photographers gathered in the northeastern court in Madrid to follow the proceedings.

The court refused to attend the video session or enter the building by car to avoid media jumps.

If an agreement with the tax authorities had not been agreed to pay 18.8 million euros, Ronaldo would have been sentenced to a much harsher fine of 28 million euros and sentenced to three and a half years in prison, according to a union of specialists from the Ministry of Finance.

The agreement led to the closure of the court case against the star who settled at Juventus for about 100 million euros after leading Real for the third consecutive title in the Champions League and the fourth in the five last seasons.

The Madrid Criminal Court has accused Ronaldo of tax evasion of 14.7 million euros by setting up a fictitious bargaining structure designed to conceal the benefits for the period from 2011 to 2014.

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