Maradona’s earrings to be auctioned
Published:Tuesday | January 5, 2010 | 1:12 PM
Italian media reports say authorities are planning to auction off diamond earrings seized from Diego Maradona as part-payment of the former Napoli star\'s unpaid tax bill.
The earrings were confiscated by tax authorities last year, while Maradona was in an Alpine resort in northern Italy.
The Bolzano tax police in charge of the operation at the time put the value at 4,000 euros.
Italian newspaper La Repubblica and others say the auction will take place January 14, probably in Bolzano.
Italian authorities say the former football great, currently Coach of Argentina, owes almost 30 million euros in unpaid income tax.
The debt dates to the 1980s, when Maradona played for Napoli.