Overview

• The Sezione 30 del Tribunale provinciale di Madrid found Ancelotti guilty of evading €386,361 in image‐rights income for the 2014 fiscal year during his first Real Madrid tenure.
• He was acquitted of the 2015 tax fraud accusation, which had alleged the evasion of €675,718 in image‐rights earnings.
• Spanish law bars first‐time offenders from prison for nonviolent crimes with sentences under two years, resulting in a suspended one‐year term.
• The coach must pay a €386,361.93 fine and will be ineligible for public subsidies or tax and social security benefits for three years.
• The verdict reflects Spain’s intensified focus on dismantling offshore image‐rights schemes used by high‐profile figures to reduce tax liabilities.