著名足球教練穆里尼奧被指逃稅330萬歐元

Spanish prosecutors have accused José Mourinho of defrauding the country’s tax authorities of EU3.3m, after finding that the Portuguese coach used a company in the British Virgin Islands to conceal earnings from the sale of his image rights.

西班牙檢察官指控若澤?穆里尼奧(José Mourinho)欺詐西班牙稅務當局330萬歐元，此前檢察官發現這位葡萄牙籍教練利用一家英屬維爾京羣島的公司隱瞞了出售其肖像權所得的收入。

The accusations against Mr Mourinho, man-ager of Manchester United, date from his time as coach at Real Madrid. Prosecutors believe the 54-year-old fail-ed to declare earnings worth more than EU7m during 2011 and 2012, on which he should have paid EU3.3m in taxes.

針對身爲曼聯(Manchester United)教練的穆里尼奧的指控，追溯到他在皇家馬德里(Real Madrid)擔任教練的時期。檢察官認爲，現年54歲的穆里尼奧沒有申報在2011年至2012年期間總值超過700萬歐元的收入，他本來應該爲這些收入納稅330萬歐元。

According to a statement yesterday, Mr Mourinho did so “with the aim of ob-taining an illicit gain” and after setting up a deliberately “opaque” company structure to manage the earnings from his image rights.

根據昨天的一份聲明，穆里尼奧此舉的“目的是獲得非法收入”，並且通過設立故意“不透明”的公司結構來管理出售其肖像權所得。

As of yesterday Mr Mourinho had not commented on the allegations.

截至昨天，穆里尼奧尚未對這些指控置評。

The accusations come just a week after Spanish prosecutors brought a parallel case against Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid’s star striker who allegedly withheld taxes worth EU14.8m.

一週前，西班牙檢方對皇馬明星前鋒C羅(Cristiano Ronaldo)提起了類似指控，聲稱其涉嫌偷稅1480萬歐元。

In both cases, tax authorities and prosecutors allege that Mr Mourinho and Mr Ronaldo ceded their image rights to companies on the Virgin Islands which in turn ceded them to a company based in Ireland. The Irish company allegedly used by the two men is identical: Multisports & Image Management Ltd.

在兩起案件中，稅收當局和檢方聲稱穆里尼奧和C羅都把自己的肖像權轉讓給維爾京羣島的公司，後者進而把他們的肖像權轉讓給一家位於愛爾蘭的公司。據稱二人使用的是同一家愛爾蘭公司：綜合體育&形象管理有限公司(Multisport & Image Management Limited，簡稱MIM)。

Both Mr Ronaldo and Mr Mourinho are clients of Jorge Mendes, a well-known Portuguese football agent. When the allegations of tax fraud first surfaced last year, Mr Mendes’s agency issued a statement insisting that both men were “up to date with [their] tax obligations”.

C羅和穆里尼奧都是著名的葡萄牙足球經紀人若熱?門德斯(Jorge Mendes)的客戶。當去年關於稅務欺詐的指控首次出現時，門德斯所在的機構發表了一項聲明，堅稱二人“始終盡到了納稅義務”。

Mr Mourinho is one of the most celebrated football coaches of recent times, winning the Uefa Champions League trophy with both FC Porto from Portugal and Italy’s Inter Milan. He also sec-ured league titles with Porto and Inter, as well as with Real Madrid and the English Premier League side Chelsea.

穆里尼奧是近年來最著名的足球教練之一，他分別帶領葡萄牙波爾圖足球俱樂部(FC Porto)和意大利的國際米蘭(Inter Milan)贏得了歐冠聯賽(Uefa Champions League)獎盃。他還帶領波爾圖、國際米蘭、以及皇家馬德里和英超切爾西(Chelsea)贏得了各自的聯賽冠軍。

Known for his defensive tactics and confrontational demeanour with referees and journalists, Mr Mourinho famously referred to himself as a “special one” when he took over as Chelsea coach in 2004. The moniker has followed him ever since.

穆里尼奧以其防守戰術以及對抗裁判和記者的行爲而聞名，他曾在2004年執教切爾西時自稱“特殊的一個”(special one)。從那時起他便有了這個綽號。