The prosecutor asks the inspector who cheated soccer players to jail

The facts about the biggest scandal that splashes at Estate in relation to the world of sport continue to come to light. As published on El Mundo newspaper, the prosecution has requested a sentence of 11 years in prison for fraud, falsehood and use and use of privileged information against Leonor Sánchez-Caballero, the senior official of the Tax agency which scammed more than 6 million euros to 40 top-level players.

According to the aforementioned media, which has had access to the final results of the searches, the investigation was carried out by the Judicial Police Unit attached to the Courts of the Plaza de Castilla de Madrid. Among the scammed people appear the Madrid players, Nuri Sahin Y Hamit Altintop; Aly Cissokho, from Valencia, which is supposed to have scammed 400,000 euros, or Salvio, Elías and Sinama Pongolle, of Atlético de Madrid. They also appear in the list of affected players of the first templates of the Real Madrid and Barcelona basketball section.

Leonor Sánchez-Caballero and two other lawyers appropriated with more than 6.2 million euros that the Treasury had to return to the players in less than a year.

El Mundo explains in detail how the scam worked: they employed societies. 'Asesores Deportivos Lapver, S.L.' and 'Star Athletes Society, S.L.', both asked the Tax Agency for returns of various economic amounts "to which several soccer and basketball players who had been active in Spanish teams could be entitled.

The subtracted funds corresponded to the existing difference the income tax withholdings borne by these players as taxpayers in their tax returns made as residents in Spain and the fees that really corresponded to them as non-resident taxpayers, "as reported The world.