Modric falsely said he had signed an annex to his contract (which set out the terms of future transfer fees) in July 2004, despite reportedly telling investigators in 2015 it had only been signed when he was playing at White Hart Lane.
Luka Modric's summer break has gone from bad to worse.
Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric is facing the possibility of a jail sentence for perjury back home in Croatia, after the country's State Attorney Office (DORH) opened an investigation following evidence he gave during the ongoing fraud and corruption case against former Dinamo Zagreb president Zdravko Mamic.
Mamic is now on trial for embezzlement and tax fraud, with the 58-year-old accused of illegally pocketing a large chunk of Modric's transfer fee when he left Dinamo for Spurs back in 2008.
Questions were centered around his transfer from Dinamo Zagreb to Tottenham in 2008.
State Attorney's Office in Osijek opened the investigation against Croatian citizen (1985) due to the existence of reasonable doubt that when giving testimony before the County Court in Osijek committed a crime against justice by giving false testimony under Article 305, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code / 11.
The prosecution in Osijek told BIRN it couldn't release any additional information about the case.
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If found guilty of perjury, Mr Modric could face between six months and five years in prison.
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The case against Modric's former boss, Zdravko Mamic, started at Osijek County Court on April 27, with Mamic entering a plea of not guilty and calling the whole judicial process "a lie".
Although he now acts only as Dinamo's advisor and has had no executive positions in Croatian football for nearly a year now, he is still widely considered the "puppet master" of national football owing to his extensive network of allies and connections to the governing centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.
Prosecutors accuse Mamic, his brother and two others of embezzling 15 million euros of the club's money since 2008 on different player transfer deals from Dinamo to foreign clubs, and not paying 1.6 million euros in taxes.
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