Luka Modric helping Police with their inquiries
The Croatian midfielder has now been questioned by Police investigating tax evasion allegations report the Jutarnji daily newspaper.
It relates to his transfer to Tottenham Hotspur from Dynamo Zagreb in 2009 and his testimony, given on Sunday, was considered key to obtaining convictions. It is the officials of the Croatian side that under the greatest suspicion, not just for tax evasion but for bribery as well. The suspicion is that the then Dynamo Zagreb executive director Zdravko Mamić pocketed £7.18-million from the deal.
Police also wished to question Dejan Lovren who left the club for French side Lyon in 2010 before moving on to Southampton and Liverpool.
Zdravko, his younger brother Zoran, the Croatian champions' coach, along with Croatian Football Federation director, Damir Vrbanovic and a tax inspector are suspected by the national anti-corruption bureau of giving and receiving bribes, tax evasion and other offences since 2008. The four were arrested in July and bailed and According to a number of television stations, police yesterday removed documents from the houses of Mamic, Zoran, and Vrbanovic.
The alleged offences are said to have cost the club and the government a total of £12.85-million, the charges have all been denied, but Mamić who is a leading figure in Croatian football has had previous brushes with the courts.
It relates to his transfer to Tottenham Hotspur from Dynamo Zagreb in 2009 and his testimony, given on Sunday, was considered key to obtaining convictions. It is the officials of the Croatian side that under the greatest suspicion, not just for tax evasion but for bribery as well. The suspicion is that the then Dynamo Zagreb executive director Zdravko Mamić pocketed £7.18-million from the deal.
Police also wished to question Dejan Lovren who left the club for French side Lyon in 2010 before moving on to Southampton and Liverpool.
Zdravko, his younger brother Zoran, the Croatian champions' coach, along with Croatian Football Federation director, Damir Vrbanovic and a tax inspector are suspected by the national anti-corruption bureau of giving and receiving bribes, tax evasion and other offences since 2008. The four were arrested in July and bailed and According to a number of television stations, police yesterday removed documents from the houses of Mamic, Zoran, and Vrbanovic.
The alleged offences are said to have cost the club and the government a total of £12.85-million, the charges have all been denied, but Mamić who is a leading figure in Croatian football has had previous brushes with the courts.
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