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Mourinho is accused of committing tax fraud in 2011 and 2012. PA Wire/PA Images

Jose Mourinho to admit €3.3 million tax evasion in Spain - reports

The Manchester United manager has reportedly accepted a one-year suspended jail sentence.

MANCHESTER UNITED MANAGER Jose Mourinho is set to admit to a Spanish court investigating him that he evaded €3.3 million in tax while coaching Real Madrid, Spanish daily El Mundo reported today.

The 55-year-old Portuguese is accused of committing tax fraud in 2011 and 2012, prosecutors said last year.

He has reportedly accepted to pay a fine corresponding to 60% of the amount he allegedly hid from the taxman and to a one-year prison sentence that should be commuted into another fine, the newspaper said.

That should come to a total of more than €5 million, it added.

The deal reached with prosecutors and the Spanish taxman has not yet been submitted to the court investigating the case, according to El Mundo.

Mourinho is the latest in a long list of football players and other personalities in the industry to be accused of tax fraud in Spain on income related to image rights in the past few years.

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