Overview

• The Sección 30 de la Audiencia Provincial de Madrid convicted Carlo Ancelotti of evading taxes on image rights tied to his 2014 income and acquitted him of charges for 2015.
• The court imposed a one-year prison term and recognized civil liability of €386,361, an amount Ancelotti already paid in December 2021.
• Judges Carlos Martín, Juan José Toscano and Diego de Egea applied the minimum statutory penalty based on the coach’s personal circumstances and the gravity of the offense.
• Additional sanctions include a three-year ban on accessing public subsidies and fiscal benefits and disqualification from passive suffrage during the sentence.
• Prosecutors had sought four years and nine months in prison, and Ancelotti maintained that Real Madrid advised him to create companies for image rights collections, which he believed was standard practice.