Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, in his bid to rival Lionel Messi in everything, has been accused of defrauding Spain’s tax office of €14.7 million in unpaid taxes by a Spanish state prosecutor. Ronaldo was accused of four counts of tax fraud from 2011 to 2014.
It said the Portugal captain “took advantage of a business structure created in 2010 to hide from fiscal authorities income generated in Spain from image rights.”
The statement said Ronaldo used what it deems a shell company in the Virgin Islands to “create a screen in order to hide his total income from Spain’s Tax Office.”
The issue is similar to the one that saw his rival Lionel Messi found guilty of tax evasion last summer, with Spain’s Supreme Court having recently ratified a sentence of 21 months for the Argentine.
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