Soccer Star Neymar has been found guilty of tax fraud in a Rio de Janeiro court on Friday. The court found that Neymar failed to report earnings from his contracts with Santos, Barcelona, and Nike. In total Neymar avoided paying $86 million in taxes between 2012 and 2014. Neymar has been ordered to repay $65 million. Here’s what the courts had to say about the decision.
“We studied the information regarding the tax case in question, Neymar, the three businesses, and his business partners (parents of the player), and we found that there were fraudulent business practices,”