According to the same sources, the agreement was signed by the lawyers of Cristiano Ronaldo and representatives of the tax administration, but will still have to be approved by the Spanish Treasury, in a case in which the Portuguese could have faced up to two years in prison.
Ronaldo is accused of having “consciously” created companies in Ireland and the British Virgin Islands to defraud the Spanish treasury of €14,768,897, committing four crimes against the coffers of the Spanish state between 2011 and 2014.
In a hearing in court on 31 July last year in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Ronaldo said that he “never” concealed income nor had “any intention of evading taxes.”
The Portuguese stressed that the tax authorities knew of all his income because he never hid “anything, nor had the intention to evade taxes.”