Diego Costa, sentenced to six months in prison
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The Atlético de Madrid player pleads guilty to a tax offense and will avoid prison by paying a fine
More problems at Atlético de Madrid. Diego Costa was again in the eye of the hurricane after the Madrid Provincial Court sentenced him to six months in prison for a tax offense. The Spanish-Brazilian has pleaded guilty and will not go to jail in exchange for paying a fine of 36,000 euros, according to RTVE.
The Atlético de Madrid forward was denounced for defrauding the Treasury for a total of 1.1 million at the stage in which he left the club to sign for Chelsea in 2014. In the report that the Prosecutor's Office forwarded to the Tax Agency, It was pointed out that, despite being a fiscal resident in Spain that year, the footballer did not declare to the treasury the income that the London club paid him for the transfer of his image rights.
Therefore, the player received 1,371,098.31 euros in image rights in 2014, but in his statement he did not include the amounts paid by Chelsea, which, according to the Prosecutor's Office, caused damage to the public coffers of 1,014,416.76 euros. It should be remembered that Costa already reimbursed the Treasury a few months ago the amount of 1,142,888 euros that he evaded during the 2014 financial year.
After this setback, Diego Costa can now focus on the match against Athletic Bilbao next Sunday, June 14. A meeting in which it is expected that he will return to start as an attacking partner with Thomas Lemar due to the injuries of Joao Félix and Correa.