The prosecutor’s office demands almost five years in prison for Ancelotti for fraud with the treasury | Relief
The Madrid prosecutor’s office made the request. four years and nine months imprisonment Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid coach, for fraud more than a million euros to the treasury in 2014 (386,361 euros) and 2015 (675,718 euros) during his first phase as coach of the white team (2013-2015).
According to the indictment, the Italian, despite declaring his status as a resident of Spain for tax purposes and that his residence was in Madrid, declared in his tax returns only personal remuneration received from Real Madrid. omitted the performance corresponding to the use of his rights to the image which were transferred to other organizations. Community Service accuses him of two crimes against the state treasury.
Ancelotti signed a contract with Real Madrid on July 4, 2013, for the period from July 5, 2013 to June 30, 2016. Although the organization chaired by Florentino Perez fired him on May 25, 2015, Carletto He rented his house in the capital’s central square until October of that year, so that during 2015 Spain continued to remain “your main center of personal relationships and economic interests“.
His written relationship with the white team, in addition to establishing his remuneration, specified “some income derived from the transfer of image rights to the club.” And this is where the prosecutor’s office sees a “trap”: condemns that “in order to avoid taxation of income from said image rights”, both received by Real Madrid and other brands for various events, The coach resorted to a “complex” and “intricate” network of trusts and intermediate companies. to route a collection of image rights.
Thus, the prosecutor’s office accuses him of “simulating” the transfer of his image rights to the subjects.”lack of real activityand resided outside Spain, as the letter explains: “He thus sought opacity towards the Spanish State Treasury and concealment of the real beneficiary of the proceeds from his image rights, so that neither he himself nor any of these companies would have to pay taxes on large sums received. in Spain or abroad.”
Xabi Alonso case
It should be remembered that everything stated is only an accusation by the prosecutor’s office and that Ancelotti will have the opportunity to defend himself. Not all DOJ complaints, far from all, become a death sentence: Just a few months ago, after years of fighting, The Supreme Court confirmed the acquittal of Xabi Alonso for an alleged crime with similarities V Carletto.
In his case, prosecutors accused him of three crimes against the public treasury in 2010, 2011 and 2012 (also during his time at Real Madrid) and demanded a two-and-a-half year prison sentence for him for transferring his image rights. company based on the Portuguese island of Madeira, low tax area. Alonso stood firm, he refused to agree with the Treasury, and the high court agreed with him: there was no intent to abscond or bad faith in his decision to work with the Kyrdzali company.