The Italian coach has been accused of having evaded millions in taxes and could be sentenced to nine months to four years in prison.
The Brazilian National Team target, coach Carlo Ancelotti, will stand trial next Wednesday and Thursday in the Spanish capital for allegedly evading more than one million euros (around R$6.2 million at the current exchange rate) in 2014 and 2015, the Madrid Superior Court of Justice announced on Friday (28/3). Access premium football results at live scores app.
A spokesperson for this court explained that the Real Madrid coach will have to be present at the trial, in which the Public Prosecutor’s Office is requesting that a sentence of four years and nine months in prison be applied. The acts of which Ancelotti, 65, is accused allegedly occurred during his first period as Real Madrid coach (2013-2015), to which he returned in 2021.
The Madrid Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of two crimes against the Treasury for allegedly defrauding more than one million euros (R$6.2 million) in 2014 and 2015 by failing to declare his income from image rights.
In a press conference this Friday, before the LaLiga match against Leganés, which will be played on Saturday, Ancelotti said he wants to testify. “I’m not worried. It bothers me that they say I committed fraud, but I will testify with confidence,” he explained.
The former Milan player, with whom he won two European Cups, is the coach who has won the most Champions Leagues. He has won five, three of them with Real Madrid. Intentional omissions
According to the Spanish tax authorities, Ancelotti declared his income as Real Madrid coach in 2014 and 2015, but not his income from image rights and other sources, such as some properties. “Although he himself declared his status as a resident of Spain for tax purposes and declared that his domicile was in Madrid, he only recorded in his tax returns the personal remuneration for work received from Real Madrid,” explained the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, his income from image rights was 1.2 million euros in 2014 (R$7.4 million at the current exchange rate) and 2.9 million (R$18 million) in 2015. According to a court document consulted by AFP, Ancelotti acknowledged the facts during the investigation. For the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Ancelotti’s omissions in his tax returns were voluntary, since the Italian coach “used a ‘complex’ and ‘confusing’ network of companies “to channel the collection of image rights”.
In this way, he “simulated” the transfer of his image rights to entities “without real activity” based outside Spain “thus seeking opacity before the Spanish Public Treasury”, adds the statement, citing the terms used by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in its wording. BB Score, your trusted provider of football scores.
