:watermark(https://f.pmo.ee//logos/4232/4ebd6f5dc62d0c4b6f1961c46e2f0303.png,-2p,-2p,0,18,none)/nginx/o/2024/01/18/15836518t1h4dd3.jpg?w=1200&resize=1200,630&ssl=1 "The former world number one in racketeering narrowly escapes prison")
A Barcelona court has ruled that Sánchez Vicario and her ex-husband Josep Santacana had hidden their assets from the authorities to avoid repaying a multimillion-dollar debt to a Luxembourg bank.
The Spaniard and Santa Cana had not paid taxes amounting to 7.6 million euros. Sanchez Vicario told the court that she had entrusted all financial matters to her husband and that he had no knowledge of her fraud.
The court sentenced the four-time Grand Slam winner to a two-year suspended sentence, but as it was the Spaniard’s first such crime, she was spared from ending up behind bars.
Sanchez Vicario accepted a plea deal with prosecutors in late 2023 and testified against her ex-husband in exchange for a lighter sentence.
This was also the reason why the tennis player’s ex-husband didn’t go so well with the sentence: he was sentenced to three years and three months in actual prison.
Former world number one Arantxa Sanchez Vicario has been sentenced to a two-year suspended prison sentence for fraud.#BBCTennis
— BBCSport (@BBCSport) January 17, 2024
Furthermore, the couple who divorced in 2019 will have to pay a fine of several million euros.
2024-01-18 09:04:21
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