The shocking news are coming from Spain as African football legend and current FECAFOOT president Samuel Eto’o is sentenced to 22 months in prison for defrauding 3,872,621 euros from the Public Treasury between 2006 and 2009.Eto’o, the moral booster: We are going to Qatar to win the titleThe former Barcelona striker and his former agent Jose Maria Mesalles have accepted this Monday the sentences. However, the sentences, whose execution will be suspended since neither of them has a criminal record, have been mitigated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office by recognizing both the facts and having partially repaired the damage with the return of part of the defrauded fees. In Eto’o’s case, 1,810,310 euros, while his former representative must pay 905,155 euros.Congratulations to Samuel Eto’o who’s just become a father of a 22-year-old woman!In his statement in the Criminal Court of Barcelona, Eto’o has admitted the fraud but blamed it without directly citing Mesalles, whom he has always referred to as “a second father”.##EDITORS_CHOICE##In fact, the former Cameroonian player filed a lawsuit against his former representative for alleged crimes of fraud and misappropriation in the management of his assets, a matter that is still in the investigation phase.VELEZ – ROSARIO”I recognize the facts, and I am going to pay, but let it be known that I was a child then and that I always did what my second father asked me to do,” said Samuel Eto’o.Eto’o: “I never accepted cheating, and I never will”The events that have been tried today in the City of Justice occurred between 2006 and 2009, years in which Samuel Eto’o obtained significant income from the transfer of his image rights to the sports brand Puma and FC Barcelona, that should have been taxed as income from movable capital in their personal income tax returns, but that the footballer did not declare.
