Maradona’s Earring Auction
Seized by the tax debt to heal
Maradona
ROME – starting price of a modest amount for a jewel that is worth more than 4 thousand euro. But it was the earring with diamonds of Diego Armando Maradona: on taxes, which has seized and now puts him at auction to recover some shred of the debts with the treasury of the Italian champions Argentina counts on the suggestion effect ‘Pibe de oro ‘to collect more than its market value.
On the plate, it seems, even an autographed one of a kind: the successful tender would also go, in fact, the original document of the attachment, signed Maradona. The auction will be the 14th of January, curated by judicial sale (probably in Bolzano), and therefore not online on eBay as had been suggested after the raids last September: Maradona was in a hotel in Merano, when the Guardia di Finanza Equitalia and inspectors went door to door to his room, and have seized the earring.
Small compared to a debt with the tax of 36 million euro (after two Rolex got into the hands of the Treasury in 2006). The tax on long chases Pibe de Oro: The protracted dispute has taken a turn in February 2005 when the Supreme Court has made official for the state of tax evaders Maradona for a debt tied to failure to pay personal income tax in the second half of the 80 which increases every day to just over 3,000 euros of interest. Since then Equitalia follows every move of Maradona, and expects to cross any time they reappeared in our country. In ’91, when the yellow flames notified him of the tax folder on the stairs of a plane at Fiumicino.
In 2005, when it was recovered part of compensation paid to the company that manages the image of the Argentine championship for his participation in the TV broadcast ” ‘Dancing with the Stars. ”Supporters prepare the auction:” We do a collection” write on fans forums.
It is not interested in Diego Armando Maradona junior: “I just have mine” responds to those who asked him if he’d like to wear the earring of his father. Earring that could also go into the hands of the Argentinean is the target of a group of nostalgic Neapolitan friends of Maradona that back in July 2006 for eleven thousand euro bought two Rolex attachments Pibe de Oro for delivery to the player.
The 14th January will be in Bolzano for auction, they say, for “to feel our heat Maradona who has done so much for Napoli.”