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Diego Costa: Atletico Madrid forward fined for tax fraud, avoids prison time
Diego Costa: Atletico Madrid forward fined for tax fraud, avoids prison time
Atletico Madrid forward Diego Costa has avoided a six-month prison term – but will have to pay a fine of €543,208 (£485,324) for tax fraud. Costa, 31, pleaded guilty to defrauding the state of more than €1m by not declaring payments of over €5.15m from his 2014 move to Chelsea in the UK. In addition, […]
Atletico Madrid forward Diego Costa has avoided a six-month prison term – but will have to pay a fine of €543,208 (£485,324) for tax fraud.
Costa, 31, pleaded guilty to defrauding the state of more than €1m by not declaring payments of over €5.15m from his 2014 move to Chelsea in the UK.
In addition, he did not declare more than €1m in image rights.
Under Spanish law, he will not serve jail time after agreeing to include an additional €36,500 to his initial fine.
The country’s legal system allows sentences under two years for non-violent crimes to be exchanged for a fine.
Costa, who appeared in court wearing a mask due to the Covid-19 pandemic, re-joined Atletico from Chelsea in 2017.
“Diego Costa reached an agreement a few months ago with the prosecutor and has already paid the corresponding fine plus interest, and the request for a prison sentence was withdrawn,” an Atletico spokesman told the Reuters news agency.
Costa is one of a number of football stars convicted of tax evasion by the Spanish authorities.
In July 2017, Barcelona star Lionel Messi was ordered to pay a fine of €252,000 after being found guilty of defrauding Spain of €4.1m between 2007 and 2009.
And Portugal and Juventus player Cristiano Ronaldo cut a deal with a court in Madrid in January 2019 over tax avoidance charges, accepting an €18.8m fine.
The recent crackdown on high-profile footballers follows the removal of a tax exemption in 2010. Known as the “Beckham law”, it had allowed footballers to curb their taxes.
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