New documents published by “Football Leaks” indicate that Mateo Kovacic, Dejan Lovren and Dusan Tadic would have received part of their image rights payments through the Swiss company “Rasport Management”.
This company is linked to the Mamic family, accused of divert money from at least four player transfers by Dinamo Zagreb. One of them was the sale of Luka Modric to Tottenham in 2008.
today in Chelsea, Kovacic would have had his image rights paid by the company when signing with the Real Madrid in 2015. His contract provided for payment of 5.5 million euros per season, and 15% of image rights, an amount valued at almost 1 million euros more.
According to “Football Leaks”, half of this amount (480 thousand) received in tax haven should have been paid by the Croatian in taxes. For comparison purposes, Cristiano Ronaldo was sued by the Spanish Justice for hiding your image rights income.
Meanwhile, intermediaries in the Kovacic deal, such as Danijel Kuraja and Mario Mamic, would have received €3 million in commission for the deal through the company “Sports Servis MM”, registered in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Lovren’s transfer to Southampton was also linked to “Rasport Management”. According to “Football Leaks”, the athlete had a guarantee that the Swiss company would respond in his place if the UK tax authorities made demands.
The calculation presented in the leaked documents is that he would have received 2.7 million euros, of which he should have paid 1.4 million in taxes. Also ex-Southampton, Dusan Tadic would have been paid 800,000 euros.
