Modric risks 5 years in prison for perjury: what happened

Power of attorney OsijekCroatia’s fourth most populous city
Luke ModricMidfielder real madrid of perjury. According to what was reported by the news agency easyOn Wednesday, the charge against the 2018 Ballon d’Or was formalized along with that against his compatriot. Diane LovrenNow in Lyon. The two defendants are accused of perjury dating back to a trial held on 13 June 2017 before the Osijek Municipal Court against three senior managers of Dinamo Zagreb, Accused of tax evasion and illegal appropriation of funds from the club’s coffers in the context of Modric’s transfers to Tottenham (2008) and Lovren to Lyon (2010).

The accusation against Modric

Modric is alleged to have testified about the dates when the annexes were signed to the contracts regulating the division of fees between him and Dynamo on the transfer. The prosecution claims that the fact that the midfielder, as he himself claims, signed these appendices every time he extended his professional contract is false, because in fact he would have put everything in black and white only when he had already left the Croatian company. .

At the end of the trial, the judges passed judgments on the defendants. Including six and a half years in prison for former Dynamo president Zdravko Mamic. The testimonies of Modric and Lovren favored the latter in his escape, before the verdict was rendered, to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he currently lives.