FILE PHOTO: Atletico Madrid's Diego Costa during training at Ciudad Deportiva Wanda Atletico de Madrid training ground, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Madrid, Spain, May 18, 2020. atleticodemadrid.com/Handout via REUTERS
MADRID (Reuters) - Atletico Madrid forward Diego Costa is to face trial on June 4 for tax fraud in 2014, a court filing showed on Friday, with prosecutors asking the Spain international to be handed a six-month jail sentence and a fine of 507,208 euros ($564,877).
According to the filing, Costa defrauded the Spanish state of 1,014,416 euros by not declaring payments of 5,150,622 euros from his 2014 transfer from Atletico to Chelsea in his tax return, as well as more than one million euros in image rights.
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