download All Football App

Ronaldo accepts €18.8m fine and a suspended jail term to settle tax case

  /  autty

Juventus superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has accepted a suspended 23-month prison sentence for tax fraud and will pay an €18.8m fine.

However, Ronaldo - who missed a penalty during Juve’s 3-0 win against Chievo only the night before - will not serve any time behind bars, given the sentence is under two years and non-violent.

The 33-year-old, who left Real Madrid for Turin last summer, is accused of evading four years’ worth of tax between 2011 and 2014, comprising of four individual crimes, which totalled €14,768,897.

BBC concludes the deal will be presented to the judge during ‘a short court session’ on Tuesday, before a verdict is announced ‘in the coming days’.

Related: JuventusRonaldo