Just a week after news that football star, Cristiano Ronaldo, had been accused of a multi-million euro tax fraud in Spain, (click here) club manager José Mourinho also has been accused of an income tax fraud.
The economic crimes section of the Madrid prosecutor's office has filed a complaint against Mourinho for allegedly defrauding the Spanish state of €3.3 million.
The complaint was lodged in the Alarcón court and refers to income tax due for 2011 and 2012, when Mourinho was the manager of Real Madrid.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Madrid prosecutor said the Portuguese manager had committed two counts of tax fraud, saying that “corporate structures were used by the accused in order to conceal revenues generated from his image rights.”
Mourinho, 54, the manager of Real Madrid between 2010 and 2013 failed to declare his full income when he submitted his tax returns in the relevant years “with the intention of deriving unlawful benefit”, the prosecutor alleges. Mourinho has yet to comment on the claims.
The same Prosecutor's Office in Madrid earlier filed a complaint against Cristiano Ronaldo for four fiscal crimes between 2011 and 2014 and claims €14.7 million in back tax, stating that Ronaldo took advantage of a BVI and Irish corporate structure created in 2010 to conceal income generated in Spain for the star's image rights.
In Mourinho's case, a judge will decide whether the matter will go to court. Cristiano Ronaldo is to testify in court on 31st July.