French international striker and current Monaco captain Wissam Ben Yedder has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 133,798.70 euros for tax evasion in Spain, a court in Seville announced on Tuesday, where the player has evolved between 2016 and 2019. The sentence was obtained by agreement of all parties, and the French international will not be imprisoned if he does not commit an offense within the next two years.
Spanish justice considers that the player “did not submit his tax return in time” in 2017, after his first year in Spain. The Seville court specifies that the Spanish tax authorities revived the player on January 4, 2019, but that Ben Yedder did not respond to this request until two months later, on March 5, 2019, when he paid 225,323.25 euros to the Spanish tax authorities. But according to this Seville regional court, the attacker “consciously falsified his statement by not including the interest received” on three bank accounts he held, up to 1,623.34 euros.
42,000 months
The former Sevilla FC player also omitted to add the income received through the sponsorship contract sealed by a company in his name with the Adidas brand, income which amounted to 79,429 euros for the year 2017. A company “constituted by the player for the sole purpose of concealing this income, and not having to pay taxes on it”, estimated the Spanish judges.
Thus, according to this court, “with the income omitted from the tax declaration, the amount to be paid to the Spanish tax authorities should have been 267,597.40 euros”, i.e. 42,274 euros less than the amount that the attacker should have paid. . Despite the fact that the Habs paid 51,007.41 euros some time later, the courts decided to condemn him for the late payment.