JAKARTA - Former Barcelona and Inter Milan player, Samuel Eto'o, made a surprising confession. He admitted to having committed tax evasion while in Spain.
For his actions, the Cameroon national team legend was sentenced to 22 months probation by a Spanish court. Samuel Eto'o was found guilty of tax evasion cases worth 3.8 million euros (approximately Rp59.2 billion) while defending Barcelona.
Samuel Eto'o also agreed to pay a fine of 1.8 million euros (approximately Rp. 28 billion) and refund the full amount of unpaid taxes on his 2006 to 2009 image rights income.
"I acknowledge the facts and will pay what I owe," Eto'o said in a courtroom in Barcelona on Monday.
"But please understand that I was just a kid at the time and that I always did what my former agent, Jose Maria Mesalles, who I considered a father to be, asked me to do at the time."
In addition to Eto'o, the agent Mesalles was also sentenced to one year of probation. Prosecutors had previously demanded four years and six months in prison for both Eto'o and Mesalles.
Probation was imposed on Eto'o and Mesalles because neither of them had criminal records and because the term was under two years.
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