The Brazilian Coach Carlo Ancelotti is sentenced to one year in prison for tax fraud
A Spanish court on Wednesday July 8, 2025 has sentenced the Brazilian Football Coach, Carlo Ancelotti to a one-year prison term for tax fraud when he was Real Madrid manager in 2014.
The Madrid court also fined Ancelotti 386,000 euros ($452,187). Spanish prosecutors accused Ancelotti of defrauding the state of 1 million euros ($1 million) in 2014 and 2015.
State prosecutors sought a prison sentence of up to four years and nine months on two counts of tax fraud. In March 2024, they accused Ancelotti of having used shell companies to hide his true earnings.
Prosecutors claimed Ancelotti, for example, used one company that lacked “any real (economic) activity” in the Virgin Islands as part of an alleged scheme.
In Spain a judge can suspend a sentence of less than two years for first-time offenders. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of almost five years. A staffer in Ancelotti’s team told The Associated Press that his lawyers welcomed the court’s decision, which also ruled that Ancelotti was not formally a Spanish resident in 2015.
