The former tennis player, three-time winner of Roland Garros, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was sentenced to two years in prison for hiding assets to avoid paying a debt with a bank.
The criminal court in Barcelona declared that Sánchez Vicario and her ex-husband concocted a plot to hide assets to avoid paying a multimillion-dollar debt to the Bank of Luxembourg.
The Spanish woman was sentenced to two years in prison, but avoided going to jail because the court dismissed her sentence because it was a first crime. Sánchez Vicario reached an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office last year to reduce the sentence in exchange for confessing to the crime.
Her ex-husband, Josep Santacana, received a prison sentence of three years and three months. Sánchez Vicario and Santacana must also pay a fine of $7.1 million dollars.
The court ruled, however, that although Sánchez Vicario did not have the financial knowledge to carry out the operations, “he evidently had full knowledge of what was being done with his assets and was benefiting from it, with full knowledge of the debt he owed.” with the Bank of Luxembourg.
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario won 29 individual titles, including three Roland Garros and one US OpenCredit: Matthew Stockman | Getty Images
Sentence against Sánchez Vicario
The ruling states that “It is, therefore, fully proven that the accused (…) had and did have at all times sufficient assets to pay the debt. and that, through acts of sale and subtraction from the seizure actions, he prevented collection.”
Her ex-husband’s sentence is higher because he was the one who managed his wife’s assets, according to the ruling.
In addition to three Roland Garros tournaments (1989, 1994, 1998), Sánchez Vicario won a US Open (1994) and was a finalist twice in the other two Grand Slam tournaments, the Australian Open and Wimbledon.
In addition, he won four Olympic medals, two silver and two bronze, in Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996.
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