Former Aston Villa footballer John Carew is being jailed for 14 months for tax evasion crimes, after unintentionally failing to disclose his income at the Oslo District Court.
The ex-striker has also been hit with a hefty fine of £45,353 (540,000 NOK) for tax fraud totaling £456,264 (5.4million NOK) back in his home country of Norway.
Carew's sentence could have been doubled if the court found that the former Premier League star acted intentionally in avoiding paying his taxes.
The Norwegian had previously pleaded guilty to fraud charges brought by the Norwegian tax authority, with defense attorney Berit Reiss-Andersen insisting this case should have been handled as a confession case, given how he confessed to the tax evasion while maintaining that he had not committed fraud on purpose.