The player from Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo wants to leave the club
The player from Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo, who has a contract until 2021, wants to leave the club after being accused by the public prosecutor's office of defrauding 14.77 million euros to the Spanish treasury, according to the Portuguese sports newspaper "A Bola".
The player would be "very upset" about everything related to the process he is being investigated.
Even Cristiano Ronaldo, who is currently with the Portuguese national team for the Confederations Cup in Russia, would have informed the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, about the decision, according to the same medium.
Ronaldo's circle would have assured the newspaper that the player would be interested in other leagues such as the English, French, Italian or even the Chinese league.
The closest entourage of the Portuguese player would have told the Portuguese newspaper that he does not want to be a "victim of persecution" and neither "the circus clown".
In the news, which covers the front page of the newspaper, they explain that the decision to leave Spain would have been made two or three months ago and could be made public after a vacation period that Ronaldo will enjoy after the Confederations Cup.
In the indictment, the prosecutor's office accuses him of four offenses against the Public Treasury committed between 2011 and 2014, which amount to a tax fraud of 14,768,897 euros.
The Prosecution emphasizes that Ronaldo has taken advantage of a corporate structure created in 2010 to hide from the treasury the income generated in Spain for image rights, something that implies a "voluntary" and "conscious" breach of his tax obligations in Spain.
One of Ronaldo's Portuguese lawyers, António Lobo Xavier, argued on Tuesday that the complaint from the Prosecutor's Office in Madrid is due to a difference of opinions that has no basis in any law and that the player feels that it is an "injustice".
Lobo Xavier explained that Ronaldo declared in 2014 the image rights obtained since 2011 because he thought that was the year when he had to declare them and not in previous years as defended by the Prosecutor's Office.
"There was no omission of declaration, there was a declaration according to a criterion that apparently is not the criterion that the Spanish tax administration likes, but it has no basis in a law or rules that can say that the player violated," he said.
At 32 years old, Ronaldo renewed this year with Real Madrid, the club with which he has won, among other trophies, 3 Champions Leagues, 2 Club World Cups, 2 Spanish Leagues and 2 King's Cups.