RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Brazilian authorities are investigation national soccer team manager, Carlos Alberto Parreira, for possible money laundering and tax evasion, because links to sports entrepreneurs Reinaldo Pitta and Alexandre Martins,local press said on Tuesday.

    According to Tuesday's Extra, a Brazilian daily, Parreira brought money into Brazil illegally, and used it to buy property, in a scheme organized by the two businessmen, who represented Ronaldo El Fenomeno, a soccer forward.

    Pitta and Martins owned the Gortin Corporation, a company basedin the United States city of Miami, which managed players' and managers' money. The company had cash outside of Brazil that it did not want to declare to tax authorities there.

    Bismark, a former player for Vasco de Gama and Fluminense told the newspaper he had used the company to bring money into Brazil that he had earned playing in Japan. Bismark bought 170 buildingswith his smuggled Japanese earnings.

    The player later admitted his guilt, paid his back taxes, gave details of the scheme to the police and gave the authorities proofthat the two businessmen were owners of Gortin -- something they had denied.

    Police also want to interview Vampeta, a former national team player; Felipe, who played for Fulminense and now plays in Qatar; Gilberto, who now plays for Hertha Berlin and Gabriel, who plays for Fluminense. Enditem