Madrid: Real Madrid's Portuguese defender Fabio Coentrao, accused of evading nearly 1.3m euros in income from the tax man, was questioned in court yesterday, a judicial source said.
He appeared in court in Pozuelo de Alarcon, a wealthy suburb of the Spanish capital where many footballers live, said a spokesman for the high court of the Madrid region -- which oversees all other courts in the area.
The spokesman refused to give any other details.
But according to two other judicial sources, who refused to be named, the 29-year-old paid out 1.7m euros ($1.9m) to tax authorities before going to court -- the sum owed plus interest. Coentrao is just one of several football stars accused of tax evasion.
