Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa has consented to pay 1.7 million euros ($1.9 million) to Spain’s expense office which was exploring him for non-installment of assessments on picture rights, a Spanish paper revealed Tuesday.
The organization said the 30-year-old concealed salary earned in 2014 from a sponsorship arrangement marked with Adidas in the blink of an eye before he joined Chelsea from Atletico that year. Costa, who has both Brazilian and Spanish citizenship, came back to Atletico in 2018.
Under an arrangement with Spain’s expense office, Costa will concede to tax avoidance and pay 1.1 million euros in back duties, day by day paper El Mundo, announced.
He will likewise be condemned to a half year in prison yet won’t serve time and rather pay a fine of 600,000 euros, the paper said. The understanding will be made authority at a Madrid court on October 4, El Mundo detailed.
Reached by AFP, a representative for the duty office, said he couldn’t remark on individual assessment records.
Costa is the most recent well known footballers to have fallen foul of Spain’s expense specialists.
A Spanish court in January gave Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo a suspended two-year jail sentence for submitting charge misrepresentation when he was at Real Madrid.
The player, who joined Italian side Juventus last year, also agreed to pay 18.8 million euros in fines and back taxes to settle the case, according to judicial sources.
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi paid a two-million-euro fine in 2016 in his own tax wrangle and received a 21-month jail term.
The prison sentence was later reduced to a further fine of 252,000 euros, equivalent to 400 euros per day of the original term
