The Spanish prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday that it
will say four years and nine months in prison
for the
Real Madrid
coach , the Italian
Carlo Ancelotti
, who must soon be tried for a case of alleged tax fraud.
In a statement, the Madrid Prosecutor's Office indicated that it "requests four years and nine months in prison" for the coach, accused of having defrauded the Spanish public treasury of
more than one million euros
in the years 2014 and 2015 by avoiding declaring his income. coming from image rights.
The announcement comes hours before Real Madrid faces RB Leipzig this Wednesday night in the second leg of the Champions League round of 16, a key match that comes after the 1-0 victory in the first leg. in Germany.
In July of last year, the Madrid justice system had already announced that it would take the Real Madrid coach to trial, after three years of investigation.
The process has not yet set a date, the Prosecutor's Office told AFP.
According to the Public Ministry and the tax administration, the Italian coach declared his income as coach of Real Madrid in 2014 and 2015, but not those from image rights and other sources, such as real estate.
"Despite the fact that he himself affirmed his status as a resident in Spain for tax purposes and that he reflected that his domicile was in Madrid, he only recorded in his tax returns the personal work remuneration received from Real Madrid," explains the Prosecutor's Office. in his statement.
According to the Public Ministry, this omission was voluntary, 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 "lacking real activity" domiciled outside Spain "thus pursuing opacity in the face of the Spanish Public Treasury," he adds.
Carlo Ancelotti was coach of Real Madrid in a first stage between 2013 and 2015, before returning to the white bench in 2021.
With information from AFP