Brazil national team coach Carlo Ancelotti was handed a prison sentence for tax evasion, the regional court in Madrid said on Wednesday.
The court also imposed a fine of €386,361.93 ($452,268.39). The verdict is not yet final and can be appealed.
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The former Real Madrid coach is not expected to go to jail. Prison sentences of up to two years are generally suspended in Spain.
The public prosecutor’s office had requested a prison sentence of four years and nine months, and a fine of more than €3 million.
Ancelotti was accused of failing to pay a total of around €1.06 million to the tax authorities during his first term at Real Madrid (2013 to 2015).
The case concerned income from image rights in 2014 and 2015, and Ancelotti was found guilty for 2014. He was acquitted of the charge of tax evasion in the 2015 tax year.
At the hearing in Madrid at the beginning of April, Ancelotti claimed that he had never intended to defraud the state and that he had relied on the recommendations of his club and his advisors.
