The Prosecutor's Office has appealed the second sentence of the Provincial Court of Madrid that acquitted the ex-footballer Xabi
Alonso of defrauding the Treasury of two million euros between 2010 and 2012, by not declaring five million euros for image rights, and he has again asked for the trial to be repeated.
The Madrid Court acquitted on two occasions – the last one at the beginning of this month of April – to Xabi
Alonso, current coach of the subsidiary of the Real
Society, to your tax advisor, the lawyer Ivan
Zaldúa, already Ignasi
Master, the then administrator of a company in Madeira (Portugal), to which the former footballer gave his image rights in 2009, when he played for English Liverpool.
After the first acquittal, the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid forced the Audience
Provincial to pass another sentence with a new legal motivation and this month the Court has again acquitted the athlete.
As it did with the first acquittal, the Public Ministry has requested the nullity of the sentence and has ensured that “a large part of the court's conclusions do not obey logic, omitting relevant data.”
In the appeal, the Prosecutor's Office explains that the fundamental basis of the acquittal comes to consider that the Kardzai entity carried out the exploitation of the image rights of the former player.
As he points out, this company subcontracted to The Best of You, “this being the one that, in most cases, carried out the negotiations with the companies that hired Xabi
Alonso to develop advertising activities ”.
In addition, he has asked that the evidence be analyzed “in a logical and reasonable way” in a new trial with a different composition of the court.