Former African football superstar Samuel Eto’o owes nearly a million euros to the Spanish tax authorities, his name appearing on the list of “debtors” to the public finances according to a report published Monday (December 27th). Former Indomitable Lions striker, 40, must indeed, according to this document, 981,598.19 euros to the Spanish Public Treasury. He had was elected on December 11 at the head of the Cameroonian football federation.
I’ll be remembering today as one of the proudest moments of my life. I’m deeply grateful for to be elected as the new president of @FecafootOfficie. Every vote represents the energy and ambition of our football family to take our beloved sport to a level we’ve never seen before. pic.twitter.com/2z8fjLBMLA
– Samuel Eto’o (@SamuelEtoo) December 11, 2021
In November 2016, the Spanish public prosecutor’s office had requested against the Cameroonian penalties representing a total of ten years in prison and a fine of 18 million euros, accusing the player of not having paid 3.9 million euros taken from his image rights during his time at FC Barcelona.
Entitled “list of debtors”, the document brings together thousands of individuals and companies with a “debt greater than 600,000 euros” with the Spanish tax authorities, a threshold revised downwards compared to the old limit of one million. The list therefore has more names, with a total of over 7,200 in 2021 compared to around 3,400 in 2020.
Twitter also appears on the list of major debtors with a slate of 800,795.01 euros. The tax authorities did not provide more details. In September 2020, Neymar, the Brazilian star of Paris Saint-Germain, had become the worst “deadbeat” of the Spanish tax authorities with a debt amounting to 34,624,268.60 The Public Treasury had not, there either, not specified what this debt corresponded to and if it was linked to his transfer in 2013 to Barça.