Samuel Eto’o has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for tax evasion in Spain.
Eto’o pleaded guilty to evading 3.8m euros in taxes while playing in Spain.
In Spain, Eto’o played for several clubs from 1997 to 2009 (Real Madrid, Leganes, Espanyol, Mallorca, Barcelona), and admitted his guilt at a hearing on Monday.
“I acknowledge the facts presented by the prosecutor and I will pay my debt, but I want to emphasize that at that time I was just a child and then and later I did only what my agent Jose Maria Maceles, when I considered him a second father, told me that “we should,” Eto’o said.
Here he received a one-year suspended sentence of 22 months, which according to the laws in Spain he will not spend behind bars, the prosecutor for the current president of the Cameroonian Football Federation demanded a sentence of 4.5 years in prison.