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Alexis Sanchez sentenced for tax fraud over image rights

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Alexis Sanchez has been handed a 16-month suspended prison sentence after being sentenced for tax fraud.

Last month the Manchester United star admitted defrauding Spanish tax authorities of £900,000 from image rights during his time at Barcelona.

He has now been fined £525,000 and will also re-pay the money to the authorities, but will avoid a jail term if he does not commit a crime in the next two years.

Chile forward Sanchez set up a Maltese company called Numidia Trading in a tax avoidance scheme to stop paying on his image rights deals between 2012 and 2013.

He appeared via video link in January.

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Sanchez left the La Liga giants in 2014 to join Arsenal before moving to Old Trafford last month.

The 29-year-old was represented in court by the same lawyer who defended Javier Mascherano on similar charges.

 

Source: Mirror

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