Atletico Madrid striker Costa gave six-month prison sentence and fined for tax fraud

As a first-time culprit, the Spain worldwide striker will pay his received nation remuneration as opposed to investing energy in a correctional facility

Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa has conceded to swindling the Spanish condition of more than €1 million (£813,000/$1,127,000) subsequent to neglecting to announce installments of over €5m earned from his 2014 move to Chelsea.

The striker was condemned to a half year in jail on Thursday, yet Spanish law expresses that peaceful wrongdoings with a discipline of under two years’ detainment can rather be settled with a fine for first-time guilty parties.

For Costa’s situation, the Brazil-conceived Spain universal will fork out an extra installment of simply over €500,000 on the missing €1m so as to completely fulfill the courts, with an inability to pronounce picture rights additionally having gone under the state’s magnifying instrument.