Former Real Madrid Manager Mr Jose Mourinho has accepted a one-year prison sentence for defrauding the Spanish State of three point three million Euros.
A Spanish Court said the tax ministry and Mourinho’s defence team had agreed to exchange the twelve-month prison sentence with a daily fine of two hundred and fifty Euros for twenty-four months, as under the Spanish law, jail terms under two years can be served under probation.
The Court said Mr Mourinho leased his image rights to companies based in the British Virgin Islands and Ireland in 2004 but left those earnings out of his tax returns between 2011 and 2012.
The fifty-six-year-old Mr Mourinho is one of the most successful coaches in modern European soccer, winning league titles with Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Porto.
He also won the Champions League in 2004 with Porto and in 2010 with Inter Milan.
He was sacked in December 2018 by Manchester United after the Premier League club, who won the last of their record twenty top flight league titles in 2013, endured their worst start to a season for twenty-eight years.
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