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Cristiano Ronaldo will not be leaving Real Madrid to join Manchester United or any other club, according to club president Florentino Perez.
The summoning of Ronaldo coincided with the same Madrid-based prosecutor's office accusing Mourinho of two counts of tax fraud.
Ronaldo is with Portugal at the Confederations Cup in Russian Federation and has not said anything about his future since the A Bola story was published, which said Ronaldo wants to leave Real Madrid.
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Former Barca defender Javier Mascherano also agreed a one-year suspended sentence with authorities for tax fraud last year. Last week, Ronaldo was accused by a state prosecutor of four counts of tax fraud totaling $16.5 million.
Ronaldo and Mourinho are the latest members of the soccer elite to be accused of tax fraud in Spain.
Ronaldo has been linked with a return to Manchester United but a move could cost the Premier League side anything up to the Portugal international's €1bn release clause.
Ronaldo has scored 406 goals in 394 appearances for Real Madrid since joining the Madrid giants from Man United in the summer of 2009.
According to media reports Ronaldo is unsettled at Real Madrid because he believes the European champions did not back him as fully as he had hoped in his dispute with the taxman. "I have not spoken with him since [the Champions League final in] Cardiff". A judge will then decide if there are grounds to charge him with a crime.
In three years with Real Madrid, Mourinho won La Liga (2012) and the Spanish Cup (2011).
Prosecutors in Madrid recently filed a complaint to a court accusing the four-time Ballon d'Or victor of a "voluntary" and "conscious" breach of his tax obligations, claiming the 32-year-old created a "business structure" in 2010 to hide earnings from image rights between 2011 and 2014, thus defrauding the Spanish tax authorities out of €14.7million.
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