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Tax defenders put boot into Maradona
The Hand of God must be shaking all the way to the bank now the South American authorities have demanded he pay back tax from his stint at Napoli in Italy's Serie A football league.
Tax officials are trying to recover more than 30meuros(£26m)from Diego. Their investigation has already taken them to where the rambunctious footy star probably had the most weight to lose - his head. More specifically, his ear.
The star sported a bauble worth £5500. But for reasons unknown, it fetched £22,268 from an unknown female buyer when it was sold at auction.
Reports stated Maradona was being treated for weight gain and stress when the earring was seized, which makes TS wonder whether news of the seizure worsened his condition.
Earlier, authorities seized a wristwatch worth 10,000 euros (£8,900), but say these items are a fraction of what the former football star owes.
Let's see you dribble your way out of this one Diego.
It would be great to use your scorn effort into informing correctly. As far as the news go, Maradona had been charged of tax evasion by Italian authorities, not South American authorities (last time I checked South America had no authorities per se!). And the reach of Italian tax prosecution into someone who does not live in the country anymore leaves them in the clownish headline-grabbing impounding of personal effects, which is a bit sad when they do not bother to prosecute their own "authorities" - e.g. Berlusconi or his UK-based tax dodging advisers.
Posted by :Rectifier | January 19, 2010 11:37 PM