Predrag Mijatovic, better known as Pedja MijatovicApproved by tax authorities For not correctly declaring the income and bonuses he received from various managers in order to mediate the signing of football players in the years immediately after leaving his post as sports director. real Madrid. The Treasury found that the man had used “fraudulent methods” to prepare a personal accounting in which “significant anomalies” were identified, and so imposed a fine for continuing conduct deemed “very serious”. The sanction was confirmed by a decision of the High Court of Justice of Madrid on December 22, to which El Periódico de España of the Prensa Ibérica group had the right of access.
In 2009, after three years as sports director at Real Madrid under Ramón Calderón, Pedja Mijatovic left the club for good, where he had won his seventh Champions League title as a player in the 1998 final. Inspectors who act as intermediaries in transfer transactions, Tax Administration They observed ample evidence that various agents had paid him both in cash and in kind for his services. For example, one of these representatives came to cover his medical expenses and the school expenses of the former football player’s children.
Additionally, the Undersecretariat of Treasury detected irregular movements in the form of loans made by Mijatovic to bring in one million euros from two companies. Switzerland He said that although it was not declared as such, these belonged to him and that they would fund Karadağlı’s business in Spain. For example, a company that pays for his house in the exclusive urbanization of La Moraleja.
For this reason, the Treasury identified a debt of 285 thousand euros between liquidation and aggravated sanction only for the 2012 personal income tax. an amount approved by Supreme Court of Justice of Madrid In a judgment currently under appeal Supreme Court.
Lemic, the agent who brought Drenthe and Huntelaar to Real Madrid
In this decision, TSJM confirms the conclusions reached by the treasury’s “detailed” investigation and even mentions a “simulation” of loans of “up to 1.5 million euros” by an agent in orbit around Madrid. for the last twenty years.
This is Serbian representative and former football player Vlado Lemic, with whom Mijatovic had already contacted during his time as sports director of Real Madrid. As a result of this relationship, they landed at the Santiago Bernabéu, for example. Royston Drenthe in the summer of 2007 (for 14 million euros) and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar In the 2009 winter market (27 million).
Lemic, now without Pedja, also played a role in one of the best transfers in the club’s recent history by brokering the following transfer. Luka Modric In 2012, it was claimed that he tried to take the Croatian player from the club six years later. Mijatovic, on the other hand, has become one of the people with the best information about the future plans of Modric, whom he sees as a “friend” in recent years.
Avoid the control of the Bank of Spain
As evidenced by both the Supreme Court of Justice and the Regional Economic-Administrative Court of Madrid, Lemic “pays compensation to Mijatovic for consultancy and intermediary services in the football market.”
For these tasks, which were not properly reported to the Treasury, Lemic would pay directly from his own account. Luxembourg Mijatovic’s private expenses, such as her children’s school fees, medical bills or personal travel. Treasury investigators also cite an alleged “line of credit” that was nothing more than a credit “simulation” to disguise his salary.
“The money leaves Mr Lemic, reaches Mr Mijatovic, and neither appears to have adequately followed up on this operation, which would have amounted to almost €800,000 over the four years under review, and could possibly reach that figure. 1.5 million eurosStating that the amounts were “variable” in 2011 and 2012 but had been planned from then on, the AEAT technicians concluded: “What was supposed to be an extraordinary financing mechanism for Mijatovic has now become mundane and mundane.” predictable, so that it receives more or less fixed amounts every quarter”.
The court also noted that both knew what was happening because “payments exceeding 50,000 euros were split into simultaneous transfers to Mijatovic and his related company in order to avoid the control of the Bank of Spain.” And as an example of why he sees this as a simulated loan, he says “no interest is charged and the lender bears the costs of the operation.”
Their debts to the treasury almost cost them a house
In September last year, Hidden He published the auction of the property worth 613,400 euros owned by Mijatovic in Marbella. The reason was to settle the former athlete’s debts to the Treasury, which valued the house in the luxurious Los Granados urbanization at 360,449 euros, or almost half as much, at its auction. A few hours before the deadline, Mijatovic decided to pay the amount demanded by the treasury to stop the sale, where the highest bid was 206 thousand euros.
The aforementioned digital media say that this debt will refer to personal income tax from 2011, i.e. the year before that recently analyzed by the High Court of Justice of Madrid, but as internal sources of the Treasury confirmed to EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA Mijatovic, the Tax Office’s He is an “old acquaintance” of . For example, in 2017 he was already accused of fraud of 603.00 euros, so the treasury also threatened to take away his villa in Mijas to pay off his debts.