French international striker and current Monaco captain Wissam Ben Yedder has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 133,798.70 euros for tax evasion in Spain, a court in Seville announced on Tuesday, where the player has evolved between 2016 and 2019. The sentence was obtained by agreement of all parties, and the French international will not be imprisoned if he does not commit an offense within the next two years. Spanish justice considers that the player “did not submit his tax return in time” in 2017, after his first year in Spain. The Seville court specifies that the Spanish tax authorities revived the player on January 4, 2019, but that Ben Yedder did not respond to this request until two months later, on March 5, 2019, when he paid 5,323.25 euros to the Spanish tax authorities. But according to this regional court of Seville, the attacker “consciously falsified his declaration by not including the interest received” on three bank accounts which he held, up to 1,623.34 euros.
French footballer Ben Yedder sentenced for tax evasion
