Carlo AncelottiFormer Coach of Real Madrid and current manager of the Brazilian national team, a prison sentence of one year and fined € 386.000 by a court of Madrid on the night of July 9 after being stated in guilty of Tax evasion.
According to the Spanish law, the sentences of less than two years for non -violent crimes, in particular for offenders for the first time, are generally suspended. Ancelotti will be expected to pay the fine e Avoid the time of actual prison.
The sentence derives from the accusations according to which Ancelotti deliberately provided statements of false income to the Spanish tax authorities during his mandate to Real Madrid from 2014-2015aim to escape 1 million € in taxes. Although he admitted a mistake in his 2014 declaration, Ancelotti attributed the error to his accounting team and argued that he was not resident of a Spanish 2015In less than the 183 days threshold required for tax liability.
Public ministries had initially sought much harder punishment: 4 years and 9 months in prisontogether € 3.2 million fineclaiming that Ancelotti did not report a substantial income received from image rights during his period actually.
Ancelotti’s legal team refused to comment publicly. In the meantime, the Brasian football confederation He said he is carefully monitoring the situation.
Ancelotti joins a list of high -profile characters in Spanish football who have faced legal consequences on tax issues. In particular, Lionel Messi And his father received suspended convictions in 2016 for tax fraud that involved 4.1 million euros. In 2019, Cristiano Ronaldo He paid nearly 19 million euros in fines and received a suspended prison sentence of 23 months. Coaches like José Mourinho And players like it Diego Costa They also found legal issues relating to tax evasion during their period in La Liga.
After leaving Real Madrid in May, Ancelotti had recently taken over the Brazil National Teamunderlining that legal relapse can also follow him while he undertakes a new managerial chapter.
