Armed customs officers are reported to have boarded
Cristiano Ronaldo’s holiday yacht as part of an inspection, according to Daily
Mail.
The Real Madrid star is said to have been stopped at high
sea after leaving a restaurant on the paradise island of Formentera near Ibiza.
Officials are believed to have boarded the yacht on Tuesday
afternoon.
Ronaldo, 32, was reportedly on the yacht with girlfriend
Georgina Rodriguez and friends and family when the officials approached the
vessel on a large boat.
The routine inspection is said to have lasted around an hour
and a half.
Spanish society magazine Hola, which broke the news on
Wednesday, published pictures on its website of three officials boarding the
yacht.
Hola reported, “A Customs camera filmed everything that
happened during the inspection.
“One of Cristiano’s relatives was the person who dealt with
the administrative work and showed them the documentation they asked for.
“Ronaldo stayed very calm and at no time did he get up to
speak to the officials or ask about what was happening.
“He was with his girlfriend Georgina and his mother Dolores
Aveiro, who he was seen chatting with inside the yacht.”
The footballer and his entourage were understood to be on
their way back to Ibiza when they were stopped.
The inspection is believed to have formed part of routine
checks performed on vessels in the area, related to the paperwork on board to
make sure the correct taxes have been paid.
The Customs agents are understood to have left after
discovering everything on board Cristiano’s yacht, named as AYa London, was in
order.
Spanish Tax Agency officials are not expected to make any
official comment.
A source quoted by leading Spanish daily El Mundo described
the inspection as “a routine control on vessels of the type that are carried
out every summer in the Balearic Islands”.
Customs agents are understood to have made their unexpected
appearance just off the Formentera shoreline as Cristiano returned from a
restaurant with his mother, girlfriend and children including his new surrogate
twins Eva and Mateo.
Daily Trust
