Cristiano Ronaldo In Trouble For Tax Evasion

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Cristiano Ronaldo is in trouble after a leak of documents revealed that his advisers diverted to Football Leaks, exposing lattices created by Cristiano's advisers and other soccer players in tax countries to avoid declaring all their earnings.

According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, these documents reveal that the player deviated some from Real Madrid have come to the forefront of this information, which places the footballer in a long list of athletes with tax problems, and maintain that no law was broken.

Given the information that has been published in recent days and in view of the certificate issued by the Tax Agency which certifies that our player Cristiano Ronaldo is aware of all his tax obligations, Real Madrid demands the utmost respect for a player like Cristiano Ronaldo, whose behavior has been absolutely exemplary throughout his career at our club,”the Merengue team said in a statement on Tuesday.

According to the revelations, the inspectors of the Spanish Finance Ministry are reviewing Cristiano's tax returns from 2011 to 2013. If they find irregularities and consider that they constitute a crime, the consequences could be serious for the person involved.

The secretary of tax inspectors, José María Mollinedo, indicated in an interview with the Catalan radio station RAC1 that the Portuguese could face a sentence of up to 6 years in prison. "We would be facing an aggravated fiscal crime," he warned.

Cristiano is far from being the only white star in the peephole of the tax authorities, since in recent days his colleagues and compatriots Pepe and Fabio Coentrao have been accused of allegedly hiding more from the Argentinean Leonel Messi, who last July was sentenced for tax fraud to 21 months in prison, which he will not have to serve for lack of a record.