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Football Leaks: Di Maria, Pastore homes raided in PSG tax probe

Investigators raided Paris Saint-Germain's headquarters and the homes of the club's Argentinian stars Angel Di Maria and Javier Pastore on Tuesday in a tax fraud probe.

Di Maria and Pastore during a training on the eve of the French League Cup football match final Monaco vs Paris Saint-Germain on March 31, 2017.
Di Maria and Pastore during a training on the eve of the French League Cup football match final Monaco vs Paris Saint-Germain on March 31, 2017. Franck Fifa/AFP
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French prosecutors launched the investigation in December following revelations by the Football Leaks website concerning financial transactions and other details involving top football players.

Di Maria and Pastore are being investigated in connection with the probe into the use of tax heavens to hide earnings from the marketing of image rights, the sources said.

The leaks also targeted Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United's Paul Pogba.

The Paris head office of PSG as well as its administrative offices were raided, the source told the AFP news agency, confirming a report by French investigative newspaper Mediapart.

According to the newspaper the raids were the first in connection with the tax evasion allegations contained in the leaks published in December by Mediapart along with a consortium of media outlets known as European Investigative Collaborations.

Offshore transactions

The paper alleged that Di Maria, who joined PSG in August 2015 from Manchester United, had pocketed at least 5.1 million euros between 2013 and 2016 through offshore transactions.

According to Mediapart, PSG signed a contract with an offshore company in Panama through which it took a share of the players' earnings, although the club told the paper it had never received a commission from any tax haven company.

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