Spanish prosecutors want Cameroonian footballer Samuel Eto’o to be handed a 10-year jail sentence and fined a €14.3-million as penalty for alleged tax fraud, AFP reported.
It is alleged that Eto’o, while at Barcelona, set up front companies to avoid paying taxes from 2006 to 2009.
The fraud amounts to some €3.9 million, the prosecutors state. “The footballer pretended he had ceded his rights to two other companies in Hungary and Spain so as to fraudulently avoid paying taxes,” the prosecutors allege.
Eto’o is not the only Barcelona player to be accused of tax fraud. Argentines Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano also face similar charges.
