Gilbert Schlick, president of the electoral commission, and Samuel Eto’o, during the elections of the Cameroonian Football Association. Photo: Daniel Beloumou Olomo / AFP.
In recent times, former Barcelona player Samuel Eto’o has been at the center of the news for several legal issues. Earlier this year, he went through a judicial process that culminated in an order requiring her to have her biological daughter recognized. Erika from Rosario, who filed a lawsuit four years ago. This time he accepted the sentence imposed by the Justice after having defrauded the Spanish public treasury for millions of euros.
Together with his former representative José María Mesalles, they were sentenced to 22 months and one year of imprisonment, respectively, after what happened between 2006 and 2009. The Cameroonian confessed that he was responsible for the incident, but indirectly held Mesalles responsible, whom he recognizes as a “second father”. “It was my father who took care of the boy I was then. I’ll pay, but I’ve always done what my father told me to do. “he has declared.
Indeed, the current president of the Cameroonian Football Federation sued his former representative at the time for alleged crimes of fraud and embezzlement in the management of his assets, subject still in the preliminary phase.
Although the prosecutor has asked for sentences of up to 10 and a half years for both, in addition to the payment of compensation and fines that exceed 14 million, Eto’o has finally agreed to 22 months in prison even if he will not set foot in prison. justice He found him guilty of € 3.8 million tax fraud after improperly taxing the income from the transfer of his image rights to the sports brand Puma and FC Barcelona.
The former player should have done so on his tax return, but he did it through two companies, which led to a process that lasted several years. Finally, both have agreed to return the defrauded amount and the execution of the release will be suspended as neither of them has a criminal record. The Public Prosecutor’s Office, after having acknowledged the facts and having partially repaired the damage with the return of part of the cheated fees, decided to lower the required penalty.
Although Eto’o acknowledged the allegations, Mesalles preferred not to testify before admitting the facts, in a compliance trial in which the third accused, Jesús Lastre, director of one of the instrumental companies used in the fraud, was acquitted. .
Samuel Eto’o appears after the resolution of Justice
The former Chelsea striker will have to pay four fines, one for each infraction, e its value is around two million euros while his former representative will have to pay another four for a total value of 905,155 euros.
The other court ruling Eto’o faced this year.
Samuel Eto’o was going through a legal process that reached a resolution in February: the 40-year-old former player will have to recognize Erika do Rosario as his biological daughter, who filed a lawsuit four years ago, and will have to pay her a check.
From 2018 Erika wanted the former Barcelona player to recognize her after having a connection with her mother Adileusa do Rosario. At the end of the 90s they had had a brief relationship from which this young woman was born, who today at the age of 22 has finally been recognized as the daughter of the Cameroonian footballer. At the time, Eto’o was a member of Espanyol, but it wasn’t until 2018 that he found out who his father was.
In an interview with the ABC newspaper, Adileusa do Rosario said: “When I told him I was pregnant, he replied that I was like all the ‘bitches’ looking for footballers, that I was a whore ** and that if I didn’t have an abortion I would leave to find out. I was in love with him and thought he would do better with me.
On three occasions the athlete was invited to come to Madrid to take a DNA test, but he did not and, according to the lawyer in an interview with the newspaper El País, it was impossible to contact him. “I wanted the DNA test to be done, because being very famous people, it’s 100% verified. Also because justice in these cases is always prudent with the plaintiff and protective of the accused. But we have already asked the judge to deliver the sentence, “he explained.
Finally, in February, the Civil Court of First Instance number 83 of Plaza de los Cubos in Madrid, decided that Eto’o would recognize Erika as his eighth daughter and pay him a monthly pension of 1,400 euros. The other sons and daughters are: Annie, Etienne, Junior, Sona, Sienna, Lynn, Maelle and finally Erika.
Source: Clarin
