The Prosecutor’s Office is asking for four years and nine months’ imprisonment for Carlo Ancelotti for alleged tax fraud in Spain

On Wednesday the Spanish prosecutor’s office announced that e.ghe will say four years and nine months in prison for the coach real Madridthe Italian Carlo Ancelottiwho is due to stand trial soon in a case of alleged tax fraud.

In a statement, the Madrid Public Prosecutor’s Office specified that it “is asking for four years and nine months’ imprisonment” for the coach, accused of defrauding the Spanish public treasury. more than one million euros in 2014 and 2015 for having avoided declaring their income from image rights.

The announcement comes just hours before Real Madrid face RB Leipzig this Wednesday evening in the second leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie, a key match that comes after a 1-0 first-leg win in Germany.

In July last year, the Madrid justice system had already announced that it would put the Real Madrid coach on trial, after three years of investigations.

The trial has not yet set a date, the prosecutor’s office told AFP.

According to the Public Prosecutor and the tax administration, the Italian coach declared his income as coach of Real Madrid in 2014 and 2015, but not those coming from image rights and other sources, such as real estate.

“Despite the fact that he himself affirmed his status as a tax resident in Spain and considered that his domicile was in Madrid, he only registered in his tax return the personal work remuneration received from Real Madrid,” explains the Prosecutor’s Office. …in his statement.

According to the Public Prosecutor, this is a voluntary omission, since Ancelotti resorted to a “complex” and “confusing” network of companies “to channel the collection of image rights”, he underlines in his statement.

In this way he “simulated” the transfer of his image rights to entities “without real activity” based outside Spain “thus pursuing opacity before the Spanish public treasury”, he adds.

Carlo Ancelotti was manager of Real Madrid in a first phase between 2013 and 2015, before returning to the Juventus bench in 2021.