Jose Mourinho has accepted a one-year prison sentence for tax fraud in Spain – but has avoided jail after exchanging the sentence for a fine.
Spanish prosecutors said the former Manchester United manager failed to declare revenues from image rights in Spanish tax declarations from 2011 and 2012, when he was coach of Real Madrid, “with the aim of obtaining illicit profits”.
The news caps a miserable 24 hours for Mourinho who took a tumble at an ice hockey game in Russia on Monday evening.
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