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Former Chelsea and Real Madrid defender Carvalho given prison sentence for tax fraud in Spain

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Ricardo Carvalho has been sentenced to seven months in jail over tax fraud

Former Chelsea and Real Madrid defender Ricardo Carvalho was sentenced to seven months in prison and fined 142,882 euros ($167,000) on Friday for crimes against the Spanish tax authority, a Spanish court filing said.

Spanish law is such that any sentence under two years for a non-violent crime rarely requires a defendant without previous convictions to serve jail time.

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