LABOUR MP Meg Hillier has urged the tax authorities to investigate Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho for allegedly dodging millions of pounds in tax.

It is alleged Mourinho’s advisers helped him avoid paying tax on earnings from the use of his image rights for product endorsement — something he has strongly denied.

The claims emerged from the huge Panama Papers data leak of more than 18 million documents, probed for months by several media organisations.

Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo is another big name mentioned in reports as having allegedly moved money to a tax haven in the British Virgin Islands in what the Sunday Times described as “highly aggressive tax avoidance.”

The paper said it had found evidence suggesting tax officials in Britain and Spain had been misled by Mourinho’s advisers during a probe into more than £10 million apparently hidden in a tax haven.

The British Virgin Islands is part of a web of tax havens with the City of London at the centre.

Hillier, chair of the Commons public accounts committee, said that the revelations “are extraordinary and warrant a close examination by” HM Revenue and Customs.

Meanwhile Julian Lopez Milla of the Spanish parliament’s tax committee called for the case into Mourinho’s taxes to be reopened to “investigate whether Mourinho has committed the criminal offence of tax fraud.”

The firm alleged to have orchestrated the dodging, Gestifute, has rejected the allegations.

It denounced the claims as “serious and malicious,” and insisted that both Mourinho and Ronaldo were “fully compliant with their tax obligations” in Spain and Britain.

“Neither Ronaldo nor Mourinho have ever been involved in legal proceedings regarding the commission of a tax offence.”

However, there are all sorts of schemes exposed in the past few years that reduce the amount of tax a person has to pay through legal but questionable means — tax avoidance, in contrast to illegal tax evasion.

The European Investigative Collaborations consortium said the documents uncovered in the leak include photographs, spreadsheets and emails.

It added that more revelations will be published in the coming weeks, giving “an unprecedented look into the gloomy depths of the modern football industry.”