The Public Prosecution Service of Spain maintained, on Thursday (3), its request of four years and nine months in prison for Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, for hiding the Spanish tax authorities part of his recipes from image rights.
The Public Prosecution Service-which in Spain often makes its petitions public before the oral hearing begins and can ratify them or modify them at the end-asks for the Italian coach conviction for frauduming more than one million euros (R $ 6.18 million) in imaging rights in 2014 and 2015, during his first ticket driving Real Madrid (2013-2015), to which he returned in 2021.
“We understand that the facts of fraud, concealment and omission compete,” the prosecutor said in his conclusions. Ancelotti “alleges ignorance that can hardly be welcomed,” he said.
The decision of the Madrid Superior Court, before which the Italian has been attending since Wednesday, was reserved.
“Mr. Ancelotti was not very clear about what he was signing,” said, in turn, coach’s lawyer, Carlos Zabala, in his final intervention, referring to his contract with the Madrid club.
The lawyer, who requested the acquittal of his client, estimated that the case could be resolved by the administrative way and accused the Spanish tax authorities of wanting to submit the technician to the “public scarring”.
During his Wednesday statement, Ancelotti said he never thought of committing fraud, and that it was the club that proposed this form of remuneration.
The Italian coach agreed to charge 6 million euros (R $ 37.1 million) net for four seasons, of which he fulfilled two, and it was the club that proposed to charge 15% in imaging rights.
According to the Spanish tax administration, Ancelotti declared his revenues as Real Madrid technician in 2014 and 2015, but not from image rights and other sources, such as some real estate properties.
Revenues for imaging rights were, according to the prosecutor, 1.2 million euros (R $ 7.4 million) in 2014 and 2.9 million euros (R $ 17.9 million) in 2015.
