Real Madrid’s Modric again faces perjury charge in native Croatia
ZAGREB — Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric and former Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren had been once more charged in Croatia on Thursday with allegedly giving false testimony about monetary offers that they had with a former Dinamo Zagreb director who has been sentenced for embezzlement and tax fraud in a multi-million-dollar case.
Zdravko Mamic was discovered responsible in 2018 on a number of costs that included making unlawful earnings on participant transfers from his time on the helm of Croatian crew Dinamo Zagreb, together with the offers that took Modric to Tottenham in 2008 and Lovren to Lyon in 2010. Mamic was sentenced to six 1/2 years in jail however fled to Bosnia earlier than the responsible verdict was introduced.
Modric and Lovren had been charged with committing perjury and failing to declare taxes on their multi-million transfers to international golf equipment. But a Croatian court docket lifted these accusations in opposition to the 2 on the eve of the 2018 World Cup the place each performed when Croatia reached the ultimate to lose to France. Modric received FIFA’s Golden Ball as the most effective participant on the event.
The Croatian court docket dominated that there was not sufficient proof that Modric — the Ballon d’Or winner and UEFA participant of the yr in 2018 — and Lovren dedicated the felony offence of perjury.
Croatia’s public prosecutors stated on Thursday that there’s sufficient proof that Croatia captain Modric and Lovren falsely testified through the unique trial.
The verdict in opposition to Mamic stated that he signed private contracts with gamers throughout their early improvement years at Dinamo Zagreb, together with Modric and Lovren, obliging them to share their earnings with him. Once they acquired the cash from their contract, they’d pay Mamic off.
Mamic claims that a few of that cash was by no means paid to him and that Modric and Lovren are “accomplices” within the graft case in opposition to him.
“We met and signed a money-sharing agreement; he (Modric) withdrew the money, gave a part to me,” Mamic claimed when speaking to reporters in Bosnia earlier this month. “No player in history has ever paid a single penny of taxes,” he stated.
If discovered responsible of giving false testimony, each gamers would face between six months and 5 years in jail. The trial date has not been set.
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