Super-agent Mendes in Portuguese tax probe

Lisbon: Portuguese tax inspectors were examining the accounts of football super-agent Jorge Mendes on Wednesday two weeks after he was charged in Spain with tax fraud, his company said. The 51-year-old Mendes represents Cristiano Ronaldo, Jose Mourinho, Radamel Falcao and a host of other top-earning stars, many of whom are being investigated in Spain over allegations they hid earnings from image rights in off-shore accounts.

“An inspection procedure is currently under way and it is being carried out in normal conditions,” a spokesperson for Mendes’ firm Gestifute said on Wednesday, adding that the company had already been subject to a series of similar inspections that had passed off without incident.