Europe's footballer of the year Luka Modric (33) has been found guilty of tax evasion in two cases and accepted an eight-month prison sentence. As the Spanish daily El Mundo reported, the Croatian runner-up should have slipped around 870,000 euros in the marketing of his rights to the Spanish treasury.
The midfield star of Real Madrid is said to have agreed with the prosecutor on a back payment of about 348,000 euros, he had already paid a million euros at the beginning of the negotiations. The prison sentence must Modric after another payment of 60,000 euros not compete. Modric had evaded taxes on a company in Luxembourg, which was headed by his wife Vanja Bosnic and named after his son Ivano. Overall, Modric has to pay around 1.4 million euros.
Modric is not the only real star who has fallen into trouble due to a lack of tax moral. Only at the beginning of September, his team-mate Marcelo was also convicted of tax evasion in the marketing of his image rights to around 750,000 euros fine and four months probation on probation. Even superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, now at Juventus, was already in court.
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