Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has accepted a one-year suspended jail term in a long-running tax fraud case in Spain.
The Portuguese national was accused of owing nearly €3.3m (£3m, $3.8m) in undeclared image rights revenue for 2011 and 2012, reports Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
The money was reportedly concealed from the Spanish tax authorities using a company based in the British Virgin Islands.
In addition to the one-year jail term, Mourinho has been fined around €2m.
Like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, who both have been through similar ordeals, Mourinho is not expected to serve any time behind bars as sentences under two years can be served on probation.
Case not closed?
Mourinho appeared in court in Madrid in November 2017 and announced that the tax fraud case against him was closed.
However, it now appears that that may not have been the case.
At the time, he said: “I left Spain in 2013 with the information and the conviction that my tax situation was perfectly legal.
“A couple of years later I was informed that an investigation had been opened and I was told that in order to regularise my situation I had to pay ‘X’ amount.”
“I did not answer, I did not argue. I paid and signed with the state that I am in compliance and the case is closed,” he told the media.
Mourinho did not disclose how much he had paid.
