“When Real Madrid proposed me the sale of image rights, I put in touch with my English consultant and afterwards I didn’t deal with it because everything seemed correct to me. I didn’t think there was a fraud even if now, since I am here, it seems that things were not completely correct”. Real Carlo Ancelotti technician in front of the provincial court of Madrid said in the courtroom, in the trial that sees him on the defendants’ counter for tax fraud.
The accusation and words of the accused
Ancelotti, for whom the prosecutor asked for a sentence to 4 years and nine months in prisonhe would have froze the tax authorities for just over a million euros between 2014 and 2015, during his first Spanish experience, omitting in his statements the income relating to the exploitation of image rights transferred to other entities. The coach of ‘merengues’ He never expressed his intention to negotiate and presented himself to the trial today by explaining to journalists to trust that he can try their own innocence.
The defense of the technician on image rights
“I have never given importance to image rightsare the players who make the shirts sell. I was only interested in receiving the six million net for three years and I never realized that something was not correct, nor did I receive any communication on an investigation in progress “, the words at Ancelotti’s audience reported by the Spanish press. Upon exiting the court, the Emilian technician did not issue statements, limiting himself only to a” it went well, very well “.