According-www:nytimes.com
“Brazil head coach Carlo Ancelotti has been sentenced to one year in prison and fined €386,361 by a Madrid court for failing to pay tax on his image rights revenues in the 2014 financial year.
Ancelotti, who left Real Madrid at the end of the side’s 2024-25 La Liga season to take charge of Brazil, has been acquitted by Section 30 of Madrid’s provincial court of a similar offence related to the 2015 tax year.
The Italian head coach managed Real Madrid from 2013 to 2015 and again between 2021 and 2025.
The court were unable to prove Ancelotti had stayed long enough in Spain in 2015 to incur tax liabilities, as he moved to London in May that year after being sacked by Madrid.
It is rare for Spain to enforce jail sentences of under two years for non-violent and first-time offenders.
Ancelotti, 65, was charged in 2020 after being accused of failing to pay around €1.62million ($1.24m; £915,000 at current rates), with €386,361 from 2014 and €675,718 from 2015.
The Spanish Public Prosecutor’s Office had been seeking a prison sentence of four years and nine months, as well as a fine of €3.2m.
The charges related to earnings from Ancelotti’s image rights during his first stint as Madrid head coach in 2014 and 2015, with the allegation that the Italian had failed to include the relevant income in his tax returns, despite declaring himself as a tax resident in Spain and listing his residence as Madrid.
The case was heard in the 30th Criminal Court of the Provincial Court of Madrid on April 2 and 3. It was clarified on the first day of proceedings that Ancelotti had since paid his €1.5m debt to the Spanish tax authorities in 2021. Ancelotti had decided to testify in court after saying he would not attempt to strike a deal with the prosecution.”
P.S.He will not have to serve time in jail.
