{"id":6437,"date":"2023-04-11T15:56:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/monacos-ben-yedder-gets\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:07:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:07:41","slug":"monacos-ben-yedder-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/monacos-ben-yedder-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco&#8217;s Ben Yedder gets suspended prison sentence for tax fraud in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID (Reuters) &#8211;     A Spanish court has given AS Monaco striker Wissam Ben Yedder a six-month suspended prison sentence and fined him 133,799 euros ($145,961) for tax offences during his time as a Sevilla player, court documents showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, prison sentences under two years for non-violent crimes rarely require a defendant without previous convictions to serve jail time.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence was agreed in a plea deal between Ben Yedder&#8217;s defence, the prosecutor and the state attorney who represented tax authorities. <\/p>\n<p>French national Ben Yedder, who played for Sevilla between 2016 and 2019, failed to pay his taxes on time in 2017, according to the court document dated March 9 and disclosed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Following a request from tax authorities in 2019, the striker paid 225,323 euros in back taxes but did not include interest received as income from movable capital and failed to declare a sponsorship contract with Adidas, the document said. <\/p>\n<p>Ben Yedder later paid 51,007 euros to include those items plus interest. <\/p>\n<p>Players such as Portugal&#8217;s Cristiano Ronaldo, Argentina&#8217;s Lionel Messi or Brazilian-Spanish player Diego Costa have also faced tax cases in Spain. They all agreed to settle by paying large fines.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 0.9167 euros)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Emma Pinedo; Editing by David Latona and Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/monacos-ben-yedder-gets\/europa-league-play-off-second-leg-as-monaco-v\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3A0KP-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3A0KP-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID (Reuters) &#8211; A Spanish court has given AS Monaco striker Wissam Ben Yedder a six-month suspended prison sentence and fined him 133,799 euros ($145,961) for tax offences during his time as a Sevilla player, court documents showed on Tuesday. In Spain, prison sentences under two years for non-violent crimes rarely require a defendant without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3A0KP-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6439,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions\/6439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}