The Spanish Treasury has given its approval to the agreement reached between public prosecutors and Cristiano Ronaldo, handing the Juventus winger a fine of almost 19 million euros and a two-year jail sentence.
Between 2011 and 2014, the then Real Madrid player committed four years' worth of tax fraud, considered four individual crimes of which the total amount reaches 14,768,897 euros.
In addition to that sum, reduced to 5.7m euros during the case, Ronaldo will also pay court fees and interest to total a fine of just under 19m euros.
The agreement of a two-year prison sentence means he will not serve any of that term, due to this being his first offence.
Although the Treasury, which has recently been subject to a change in management following the Spanish government's upheaval, have reached an agreement over the fine legal sources have told EFE that there remains a discrepancy over the length of the prison term.
The Treasury wants to maintain the two-year sentence to prevent reoffending, with any further misdemeanours having to be served as it would be a second offence.
That will be confirmed in the courts of Pozuelo de Alarcon, where Ronaldo gave his testimony almost a year ago to the day.
AKB
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now some fake cr7 fans come with a talk that by protecting his player form trolls by using messis tax problem but those fools didn't know his father that mistake but again and again they tells Messi is Tax fraud it is like they can't agree the best players but also I am not mentioning any true cr7 fans
Shina-Ayo
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Fraudster? No. Only fools will call Messi or CR7 fraudsters. Spanish authorities are complicated when it comes to tax issues!
Knoć
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I never seen or heard any Spanish players being charged with tax frauds
BAPPSPAULO
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Spain can drain Bill Gates and Jeff Brazos when it comes to tax
MatsaN
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I think Spain as a problem with foreign players. How come its oways foreign players with the issues of tax fraud and it oways happens especially when the player z about to leave Spain ....
hutbemot
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Spanish Football never deserved CR7.. All they did was envy and dislike him, even his own fans..If that ever happened to messi... He wud have retired and quit football.. CR7 displayed great strength physically and mentally, even on and off the pitch and literally asked to be released by Madrid for any fee..If Juventus was to pay his original released clause..It would have been €1 Billion. Higher than any player in d Universe.. Thank God he is outta Spanish shitty football..Full of envy and sabotage.. All Hail CR7..The Greatest of All Time
School-boy-A
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Could you imagine him in prison Breaking news CR7 has signed for the Spanish prison local football team😂😂😂😂😂😂🤔
Rapido
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I guess Spain wants to strengthen their economics through players money, especially CR7 but let them know that what they are doing will soon start giving some players a second thought about La Liga by seeking to play in other friendly leagues gradually leading to the downfall of the Spanish league.
kieacmsz
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You dumb dumb you clearly have no idea how taxes work. You pay according to your SALARY if you get 30mil a year you should pay according to what you get. Why would I pay 5 euro if I work hard for payment of 100 euro and loss the 1/25 of it and people like ronaldo get 30mil and pay 5 euro which is like the 1/2500000000 of his salary. If you don't know don't talk, acting like a smartass please
There is what is called a progressive tax system, a regressive tax system, a proportionate tax system and a lump sum tax,somehow someone has to choose among these. Who said lump sum taxes are not the ideal taxes ? Is it Christiano Ronaldo's fault that he worked had to start earning millions, why don't you also work hard and start earning millions? Why should you earn a living on the hard work of someone else? Or maybe you earn less because you don't want to pay high taxes. THE POINT IS THIS, THOSE WHO WORK HAD SHOULD NOT PAY A PRICE FOR WORKING HARD. Moreover Christiano Ronaldo did not become rich by stealing your grandfather's money, he genuinely worked for his money.