Luka Modric (one of the stars of Real Madrid) was charged in Croatia with perjury, reports AFP. It is about the corruption process in 2017, which shook Croatian football.

Modric and Lovren accused of perjury regarding transfers to Tottenham and Lyon

In addition to Modric, Dejan Lovren (Lyon) is in the same situation.

In 2018, the charges against the two Croats were dropped after the Croatian national team finished second at the World Cup in Russia, in which they both participated.

The facts relate to their testimony during the trial of the former owner of the Zagreb club “Dynamo” Zdravko Mamic and three other people in the court in Osijek (Croatia), reports News.ro.

The case concerns their contracts with the Croatian club and the transfers of Modric to Tottenham in 2008 and Lovren to Lyon in 2010.

Luka Modric and Dejan Lovren face 6 months to 5 years in prison

Zdravko Mamić, who fled to Bosnia, was sentenced in that trial to six and a half years in prison for embezzling more than €15 million from the club with his accomplices, crimes which also caused €1.5 million in losses to the club. Croatian state.

According to the Criminal Code of Croatia, “the criminal offense of perjury” is punishable by imprisonment for a period of six months to five years.