Tipps69 Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 http://www.skysports.com/share/11069613 Not seen or heard this mentioned anywhere but the Spanish authorities are clearly clamping down on players committing fraud!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 8 minutes ago, Tipps69 said: http://www.skysports.com/share/11069613 Not seen or heard this mentioned anywhere but the Spanish authorities are clearly clamping down on players committing fraud!! Don't the Spanish operate some sort of system whereby if you haven't always been a wrong 'un and you get less than 2 years you don't actually have to go to prison? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 4 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said: Don't the Spanish operate some sort of system whereby if you haven't always been a wrong 'un and you get less than 2 years you don't actually have to go to prison? Yes, it's normally a suspended sentence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipps69 Posted October 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 12 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said: Don't the Spanish operate some sort of system whereby if you haven't always been a wrong 'un and you get less than 2 years you don't actually have to go to prison? 10 minutes ago, BigTone said: Yes, it's normally a suspended sentence But I can’t see that mentioned in the article, just that he’d had his sentence reduced & had a £300,000 fine as well as paying back the tax that he tried hiding. Or have I read the article wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 40 minutes ago, Tipps69 said: But I can’t see that mentioned in the article, just that he’d had his sentence reduced & had a £300,000 fine as well as paying back the tax that he tried hiding. Or have I read the article wrong? It says this: Spanish law is such that any sentence under two years for a non-violent crime rarely requires a defendant without previous convictions to serve jail time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipps69 Posted October 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 1 hour ago, BigTone said: It says this: Spanish law is such that any sentence under two years for a non-violent crime rarely requires a defendant without previous convictions to serve jail time. But it doesn’t state that this was the case in this incident, just that it rarely happens in similar incidents. And then it makes me wonder just how much someone has to defraud someone before they get a decent length of sentence? Because it’s not like we are talking peanuts here, we are talking hundreds of thousands of Euro’s. Always seems to be one rule for ‘the haves’ & another rule for the ‘have nots’!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamite Red Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 He won't be going to prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 8 minutes ago, Tipps69 said: But it doesn’t state that this was the case in this incident, just that it rarely happens in similar incidents. And then it makes me wonder just how much someone has to defraud someone before they get a decent length of sentence? Because it’s not like we are talking peanuts here, we are talking hundreds of thousands of Euro’s. Always seems to be one rule for ‘the haves’ & another rule for the ‘have nots’!! Yes, but Messi owed a lot more and is still free to roam the country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipps69 Posted October 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 20 minutes ago, BigTone said: Yes, but Messi owed a lot more and is still free to roam the country Correct & hasn’t / isn’t Ronaldo going through similar? As I said, just how much do they have to defraud someone before they get a proper sentence? I guess if I was in a position to carry out such a crime then I might be dealt with very differently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 If you fancy doing a bit of fraud, go to Spain to avoid justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoons Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 Anything two years or under in Spain is served as a suspended sentence . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezo Posted October 7, 2017 Report Share Posted October 7, 2017 Ask the bankers what the nominal sum you need to defraud before you do time. They wont know the answer but its over a billion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob k Posted October 8, 2017 Report Share Posted October 8, 2017 13 hours ago, CotswoldRed said: If you fancy doing a bit of fraud, go to Spain to avoid justice. Are these people really commiting fraud intentionally or are there just some very strange and complex laws that these players are being caught out by in Spain. i can’t imagine Carvalho would risk prison for 2 weeks wages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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