Spanish prosecutors have accused José Mourinho of defrauding the country’s tax authorities of €3.3m, after finding that the Portuguese coach used a company in the British Virgin Islands to conceal earnings from the sale of his image rights.
The accusations against Mr Mourinho, man-ager of Manchester United, date from his time as coach at Real Madrid. Prosecutors believe the 54-year-old fail-ed to declare earnings worth more than €7m during 2011 and 2012, on which he should have paid €3.3m in taxes.
According to a statement yesterday, Mr Mourinho did so “with the aim of ob-taining an illicit gain” and after setting up a deliberately “opaque” company structure to manage the earnings from his image rights.
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