Another line on Samuel Eto'o's charts.
But a line of which the former star of African football, elected president of the Cameroonian federation on December 11, would have gone well ... The ex-striker of FC Barcelona (2004-2009) is indeed on a list of "debtors From public finances according to a report published on Monday.
The former Madrilenian or Mallorcan (who also has Spanish nationality) owes nearly a million euros to the Iberian Public Treasury.
Precisely 981,598.19 euros ...
In November 2016, the Spanish public prosecutor's office had requested against the Cameroonian penalties representing a total of ten years in prison and a fine of 18 million euros, accusing the player of not having paid 3.9 million euros drawn of his image rights during his period at FC Barcelona.
đ´ The President of the Cameroonian Football Federation, Samuel Eto'o, should recruit several independent firms in order to carry out a financial, material, infrastructural and personnel audit of FECAFOOT.
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- CFOOT Cameroon đ¨đ˛ (@cfootcameroun) December 24, 2021
Contacted by AFP, the tax authorities were not authorized to give more information, in particular on the origin of the debt, and could not say whether Samuel Eto'o appeared for the first time on this list, whose criteria have just changed.
Far from Neymar ...
Entitled "list of debtors", the document brings together thousands of individuals and companies with a "debt greater than 600,000 euros" with the Spanish tax authorities, a threshold revised downwards compared to the old limit of one million. .
The list therefore has more names, with a total of more than 7,200 in 2021 compared to around 3,400 in 2020. Twitter also appears on the list of significant debtors with a slate of 800,795.01 euros.
The tax authorities did not provide more details.
In September 2020, Neymar, the Brazilian star of PSG, had become the worst âbad payerâ of the Spanish tax authorities with a debt in the amount of 34,624,268.60 euros.
The Public Treasury had not, there either, not specified what this debt corresponded to and if it was linked to his transfer in 2013 to Barça.
