An appeal court in Brazil has fined Neymar 3.8 million Brazilian reales ($1.19m) for acting in “bad faith” after his attempts to delay a tax evasion case.
The parents of the football talent as well as three companies that administer the player’s portfolio have all been fined, according to judicial sources.
The ruling was given three days in a regional federal tribunal in Brazil regarding a case that was examined by the justice department in September 2015 and resulted in the player’s assets of 192.7m Brazilian reales ($62.2m) being seized to guarantee the payment of the taxes owed.
The amount of the fine represents two percent of the value that the Brazil Tax Office intends to get from Neymar for tax evasion and fines.
In 2015, Neymar was accused by the tax office of not paying the full amount of taxes between 2011 and 2013, and to have used family companies to pay less tax.
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