Diego Maradona is not just one of the best soccer players of all times but also a person with a taste for diamonds. He is also a man who owes more than 30 million euros to the Italian government in taxes. On the 14 of January, 2010 his diamond earring was sold for 25,000 euros ($36,220) at an auction organized by Italian financial police to recover money owed to the country’s tax agency.
The earring was bought by anonymous woman which imidietly after the purchasing of the Maradona diamond earring rushed out of the auction house. The auction was held in the city of Bolcano situated in the northern part of Italy.
The finance police took the diamond earring from Diego Maradona at the weight loss clinic in Italy on the September 18, 2009. The seizure of the diamond earring was a result of the 36 millions of euros unpaid taxes by the Diego Maradona. This 36 million euros are tax for his playing in the soccer club Naples from 1984 to 1991. Diego Maradona claims that the soccer club was responsible for paying his taxes but after the close investigation of his contract with Naples, Italian government decide to ask the tax money from Maradona himself.
On the picture: Happy new owner of the Diego Maradona diamond earring.
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