Overview
- Prosecutors argued he used shell companies in tax havens to hide over €1 million in image-rights income during his 2014 Real Madrid spell.
- A Madrid court convicted Ancelotti on a single count of tax fraud and imposed a one-year prison sentence plus a €386,361 fine.
- Judges acquitted him of a related 2015 charge, ruling there was insufficient evidence of his fiscal residency in Spain that year.
- Under Spanish law his non-violent sentence is almost certain to be suspended since he has no prior convictions.
- The verdict follows similar rulings against figures like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and José Mourinho in Spain’s crackdown on undeclared football earnings.