After the Copa del Rey semi-final second leg against Real Sociedad, Carlo Ancelotti will have a date with the Spanish courts.
The Spanish courts have arranged a meeting with Carlo Ancelotti: it will be on Wednesday, April 2nd, the day after the Copa del Rey match between Real Madrid and Real Sociedad, a match that will send one of the two teams to the final.
As for the Real Madrid coach, the prosecution is seeking four years and nine months in prison for allegedly defrauding more than €1 million between 2014 and 2015, when he was already in charge of the White House.
According to the prosecution, Carlo Ancelotti allegedly used a network of trusts and intermediary companies to conceal income related to the exploitation of his image rights, thus avoiding having to pay taxes on his earnings. In 2014, he was accused of tax evasion of 386.381 million euros and in 2015, 675.718 million euros.
The Spanish prosecutor’s office maintains that Carlo Ancelotti, who resided in Spain and received income from Real Madrid, transferred his image rights to companies with no real business and domiciled outside the country, with the aim of hiding the profits and avoiding his tax obligations.
The prosecutor’s office is therefore requesting a four-year and nine-month prison sentence for Carlo Ancelotti, as well as a €3.1 million fine. Is the Real Madrid manager at risk of going to prison? In fact, yes, since he decided to go to trial without having reached a prior agreement with the Spanish courts.
There is, however, a precedent: Xabi Alonso. The club’s likely future manager managed to obtain an acquittal in a similar trial, and if Ancelotti loses, he can always negotiate with the prosecutor’s office to end the proceedings. If the agreement presented by Carlo and his defense is deemed acceptable by the prosecutor’s office, he will avoid prison.
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