Samuel Eto’o, ancient Cameroonian football star, owes nearly a million euros in Spanish tax

The current president of the Cameroon Football Federation appears on the list of “debtors” with public finances in Spain, for an amount of 981 598 euros.

Le Monde

The old superstar of African football and now President of the Cameroon Football Federation Samuel Eto’o owes nearly one million euros in the Spanish tax, its name appearing on the list of “debtors” with public finances , who published a report on Monday, December 27th. “Eto’o son Samuel” must indeed, according to this document, 981 598.19 euros to the Spanish public treasury.

Title “List of Debtors”, the document brings together thousands of individuals and companies with a “debt greater than 600 000 euros” with the Spanish tax, a threshold revised downward with the old limit. ‘a million. The list contains, therefore, more names, with a total of more than 7,200 in 2021 against about 3,400 in 2020. Contact by the France-Press agency (AFP), the tax was not allowed to give more In particular, particularly on the origin of the debt, and could not say if Samuel Eto’o appeared for the first time on this list, whose criteria have just changed.

In November 2016, the Spanish justice had required the Cameroonian of sentences representing a total of ten years in prison and a fine of 18 million euros, accusing the player not to have paid 3.9 million d ‘Euros drawn from his rights to the image during his period at FC Barcelona. The former striker of the Indomitable Lions, 40, who played in 2004 to 2009 at FC Barcelona, ​​was elected on December 11 at the head of the Cameroon Football Federation.

In September 2020, Neymar, the Brazilian star of Paris-Saint-Germain, had become the most “bad payer” of the Spanish tax with a debt of € 34,624,268.60. The public treasury had not, either, not specified what this debt was and whether it was related to its transfer in 2013 at Barça.

Twitter also appears on the list of large debtors with a slate of 800 795.01 euros. The taxman did not provide more details.

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