Italian magazine Espresso has early information from Football Leaks, including reported millions hidden in offshore accounts by Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The file dump is planned for Sunday by Der Spiegel, but meanwhile Espresso released snippets of the stories we’ll be reading about next week.
Among those named in the files are Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United Coach Mourinho.
Also involved are six Italian clubs – Juventus, Inter, Milan, Roma, Napoli and Torino.
Italian magazine Espresso has early information from Football Leaks, including reported millions hidden in offshore accounts by Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The file dump is planned for Sunday by Der Spiegel, but meanwhile Espresso released snippets of the stories we’ll be reading about next week.
Among those named in the files are Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United Coach Mourinho.
Also involved are six Italian clubs – Juventus, Inter, Milan, Roma, Napoli and Torino.
Ronaldo is believed to have transferred over €70m into accounts registered with Tollin in the British Virgin Islands between 2009 and 2014.
Another €74m were deposited in a Swiss account in the final days of 2014, which is also when Ronaldo sold his image rights to Singapore businessman Peter Lim, meaning the Portuguese striker paid very little tax on those earnings.
He is represented by Jorge Mendes, who also works for Mourinho, and it’s reported the former Inter Coach had similar arrangements.
Between 2010 and 2013, Mourinho was investigated by Spanish financial police during his spell at Real Madrid and he’s expected to pay €5.5m in fines and back-dated taxes.
An investigation has been going on for seven months with reporters from 12 European publications working together on this huge story – the EIC (European Investigative Collaborations).
They promise to spill the beans on the alliances between agents who effectively control the transfer market and the various systems used to manipulate multi-million euro contracts using offshore and Swiss accounts.