Ronaldo pays €19m in tax case - Superstar cheat

Even in a week when Oxfam’s annual eve-of-Davros report underlined the ever-widening gap between the megarich and the other 99.5% of humanity, yesterday’s agreement by Portuguese soccer player Ronaldo to pay €19m to settle a tax fraud case seems remarkable.

Ronaldo, 33, had been accused of, over just three years, defrauding authorities of €14.8m.