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Italian tax police seize Maradona's Rolex watches

ROME, June 7 (Reuters) - Want to buy a Rolex watch worn by soccer legend Diego Maradona?

Italian authorities are to auction off two of them, which police stripped from a visiting Maradona this week to help pay off his 31 million euros ($39 million) in back taxes.

Maradona ran up the debt as a player with the Italian club Napoli, which he led to two Italian league titles in 1987 and 1990. He says the club should have paid the taxes.

Hours after Maradona arrived for a benefit match on Tuesday near the southern port city of Naples, the tax police surprised him with a judicial order to seize anything of value "within plain sight".

Police officer Geremia Guercia said the only things of notable worth were his Rolex watches -- one strapped to either wrist. They had no jewels, but they can go underwater, he said  classic

"Their intrinsic value is 10,000 euros," Guercia told Reuters on Wednesday. "But when you put it on auction, saying it was once worn by the great player Maradona, it would be normal for the price to go up."

Maradona, staying at a hotel in Naples, declined to comment.

It was not his first run-in with Italian tax authorities. Last year, tax police seized Maradona's payout for participating in a televised show "Dancing with the Stars". In 2001, he was met by 20 police officers as he got off a plane in Rome.   



lol they let him off easy  why doesn't this clown just avoid Europe.