Saturday, 3 December 2016

Agents defend Cristiano Ronaldo and José Mourinho over tax claims

• Media reports claim tens of millions of euros hidden in tax havens
• ‘Any insinuation or accusation will be reported and prosecuted,’ says agency

The Portuguese agents company GestiFute has denied that clients including Cristiano Ronaldo and José Mourinho are involved in any tax evasion after a media consortium reported that they had used tax havens to handle tens of millions of euros in earnings.

On Friday, a group of 12 European news outlets began publishing the results of months of investigations into a vast trove of more than 18 million financial documents, obtained by the German magazine Der Spiegel and given the name “the Football Leaks”.

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