Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo will appear before a court in Madrid on January over a £14.7m tax evasion fraud.

The five time Ballon D'or Winner was charged by Spanish authorities in 2017 over money owed from image rights.

MySportDab report this was after a shell company British Virgin Islands  was used to hide parts of his income between 2011 and 2014.

“The accused made use of a corporate structure created in 2010 to hide from the tax authority income generated in Spain through image rights,” said a statement by prosecutors at the time the charges were first brought.

According to AS, Ronaldo who signed for Juventus in the summer will now be sanctioned to appear before the court to hear the verdict - which a be a two-year prison sentence.

He has applied to the courts to appear by video-link.

Spanish law dictates that jail sentences of two years and under are to be suspended for first-time offenders, pending the accused not committing any further crimes in Spain during that period.

Ronaldo's lawyer, José Antonio Choclán, had lobbied the courts for the sentence to be commuted to a €375,000 fine - the same outcome as was negotiated for another of his clients, former Real defender Fábio Coentrão, for similar offences.

That deal was rejected by presecutors.

Ronaldo has already paid up the bulk of the €14.7million which was outstanding in order to smooth over his move to Turin, and January's court appearance will bring a close to the matter.

The final bill for the Portugal forward will ultimately top €18.9million once fines and interest are factored in.

While in Spain Ronaldo became Real Madrid's highest ever goalscorer, netting 451 times after joining from Manchester United for a then-record £80million in 2009.

Ronaldo is also Portugal's most-capped player, with 154 appearances, and record goalscorer, with 85.

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This people just want to bring Cr7 back to Spain as soon as possible but they are on a wild goose chase

King Cr7

His fans blasted Messi then ..

The entire football world will rather crumble than for Ronaldo to go to jail

This aint good


Messi's fans right now..

how Spain dey take calculate tax so tey famous people no dey pay am?

Ororo!
Wish you luck

See as I rush come dey think say na real sentence, Spanish government dey generate income jor

Dem no fit jail ham jare. Na oyinbo teach us corruption... Jail no be for people like Ronaldo calibre, na USA this kin thing dey work

What did he did again?

Is it

me drinking my alomo in the front page****wetn concern me!

Real Madrid sef

Behaving like Buhari

The lawyers must bemessi and.barca.fans. let.them.try it and.see.what we will.do.to.them


Real.Madrid has been hubting to kill this guy. First it was baloon D'oor they ripped.him off, it moved to rape., now to tax evasion. Who leaked the escrow used to hide the funds if not the ant in the leaf.


Real.Madrid.should fpcus on their ailing reputatiom and.leave ororo alone

Where the law is no respecter of individuals

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CR7 and MESSI are just competing in everything sha!

Even with jailterms!

Please dey should allow these guys should be...that was the same thing dey did to Messi.......


Tho I'm not C7 fan..

That's some serious matter!

Why are you making it seem like he's going to prison soon with your headline? Bloggers, I dislike you guys. You guys constitute the scum of journalism in Nigeria.

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