A SPANISH COURT handed Monaco’s Colombian striker Radamel Falcao €9 million euros tax fine and a suspended prison sentence on Wednesday, a judicial source told AFP.
Many of football’s greatest stars including Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have been in similar trouble with the Spanish tax authorities.
Falcao, a former Atletico Madrid player, had already payed 8.2 million euros to the court last July when he was charged with owing 7.4 million plus fines.
The 16-month sentence was commuted to a 96,000-euro fine.
The player was found guilty of setting up companies in Ireland and the British Virgin islands to help hide his earnings from image rights after two years at Atletico Madrid between 2011-2013.
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great to see the Marist putting a huge effort in to sport they won the Connacht senior cup in rugby last year and young henshaw looks a future international. They obviously have a good football team too with some big gaa clubs like st brigids and garrycastle in the catchment area. They had a wonderful team about 20 years ago but were beaten in Leinster final replay by a packed st pats naval team