{"id":1129617,"date":"2022-06-21T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/21\/etoo-admits-tax-fraud-while-signed-to-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T10:30:23","slug":"etoo-admits-tax-fraud-while-signed-to-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/21\/etoo-admits-tax-fraud-while-signed-to-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Eto\u2019o admits tax fraud while signed to Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/samuel-etoo-11012019_3n6szm7mee9s1fsu16dkhbt1v-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Samuel Eto'o\" title=\"Samuel Eto'o\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Eto&#8217;o<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!--  --><\/p>\n<p>The Cameroonian football star, Samuel Eto\u2019I, has admitted committing multi-million dollar tax fraud while he was playing for the Spanish giants Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>A court in the city gave him a 22-month jail term and a fine \u2013 but he will avoid going to prison because he pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Eto\u2019o will have to pay back more than $8m (\u00a36.5).<\/p>\n<p>The court ruling said Eto\u2019o and his agent had deliberately evaded tax on income from image rights, between 2006 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>During his playing days, Eto\u2019o was considered one of the world\u2019s top strikers. He\u2019s now president of the Cameroonian Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"JlbBkQB1X6A\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Y\u2019agyie Sika: Ex-President J.A Kufour rewards Asante Kotoko with GHC50,000 for winning GPL (20-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlbBkQB1X6A?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Eto&#8217;o The Cameroonian football star, Samuel Eto\u2019I, has admitted committing multi-million dollar tax fraud while he was playing for the Spanish giants Barcelona. A court in the city gave him a 22-month jail term and a fine \u2013 but he will avoid going to prison because he pleaded guilty. In total, Eto\u2019o will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1129619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1321,656,4069,5504,4050,1564],"class_list":["post-1129617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-admits","tag-barcelona","tag-etoo","tag-fraud","tag-signed","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}