cameroonian Samuel Eto’o, former player of Barcelona, is in the "eye of the hurricane" in Spain after the Prosecutor’s office of that country to request a sentence of imprisonment of 10 years and a half, on charges of tax fraud for an amount close to eur 3.5 million.
The accusation, which involves the front it is precisely during his period at the Catalan club, between the years 2006 and 2009, a time that did not declare their income from contracts of image.
In management, the current attacker of the Antalyaspor of Turkey made the assignment of his rights to two companies: one Spanish and the other Hungarian. With this, their million-dollar profits by their agreement with Puma were not subject to the Tax on Income of Physical Persons (personal income TAX).
In 2012, when it filed the complaint, the Prosecutor’s office determined that Eto’o was the actual owner of those rights, and therefore had to be taxed at the maximum rate of personal income TAX and not to the most beneficial under the concept of companies.
That same year testified before the Justice, noting he was limited to playing football and that economic issues were in the hands of its agent, José María Mesalles, with whom he had sued for crimes of fraud and misappropriation, among others.
In total, the player defrauded € 3,46 million in the three years, where he perceived between 1.5 and 3 million euros for each season Puma. If the prosecution prospers, the astro will have to face in addition to a fine of 14 million euros for four offences of tax fraud.
This is not the first Barca player who faces trouble with Spanish Hacienda by frauds and tax scams. The chilean Alexis Sánchez, argentine Lionel Messi, Javier Mascherano and Gabriel Milito alongside brazilian Adriano, Daniel Alves and Neymar have also been embroiled in problems with the law.
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