Supreme Court Today, the State Attorney’s Office is studying the appeal against the sentence that confirmed the second acquittal of the former football player and current coach of Bayer Leverkusen, xabi alonso in the case in which he was accused of defrauding the Treasury of nearly two million euros between 2010 and 2012.
The Criminal Chamber is meeting behind closed doors to discuss and resolve the appeal presented by the State Attorney’s Office against the decision of the Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) of Madrid, which this summer ratified the second acquittal of ex-soccer player.
The judicial journey of the case of Xabi Alonso A long time ago: the Provincial Court of Madrid acquitted him, but the TSJ of Madrid ordered a retrial; The Court again acquitted him and, after further appeals by the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office, the Superior Court ratified the acquittal.
The State Attorney’s Office appealed again, this time to the Supreme Court, which will issue a final ruling on the case.
Alonso, who started his career at Real Sociedad and later played for Liverpool, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, is a tax resident in Spain and paid personal income tax in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, but did not declare the income earned by the company. exploitation of its image rights because it transferred its exploitation to a company based in Madeira (Portugal).
In the TSJ’s final acquittal, last summer, the magistrates affirmed that the facts prosecuted could fit the figure of legal fraud, but no simulation, because the recorded taxable event – the exploitation of image rights by transferring the owner own it – has actually occurred and is not true. is false.
Alonso, According to the court, he acted “in the belief that this procedure was lawful.”
It was also ruled by the Provincial Court, noting that “if the transfer of the player’s rights to Kardzali (the Madeira company) is true and this entity carried out an active intervention in its exploitation, the accusatory claims are reduced .”
Furthermore, he said, “it is not obscured, hidden, falsified or excludes the taxpayer’s income from the knowledge of the Tax Agency.”
Source: La Verdad
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