Spain: Messi's father faces jail over tax fraud charges

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Messi's father faces jail over tax fraud charges



BARCELONA: -- Barcelona’s public prosecutor is pushing for jail sentence of up to eighteen months and fines of more than two million euros for superstar Lionel Messi’s father on tax fraud charges.

However the official also restated that the footballer should not be prosecuted himself since it was his father who was in charge of his finances at the time.

The charges are that the state was defrauded of 4.2 million euros for the years 2007-2009 by the use of a web of shell companies.

The court overseeing the case already rejected Messi’s appeal last year and ruled that he could have approved the creation of the companies.

Messi and his father have already paid 5 million euros in corrective payments since they were charged in 2013.


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[ezzra]

What is it with Spain and tax cheaters? fist the king's sister, and now Messi's father, so the

rain of tax cheats dose fall on the plain in Spain...

[Ulic]

What is it with Spain and tax cheaters? fist the king's sister, and now Messi's father, so the

rain of tax cheats dose fall on the plain in Spain...

Tax cheating in Spain is not the real story as far as I am concerned but the effectiveness of

Spain's tax investigators. They should be hired out to look at what has gone on in Greece

for decades and bring the tax cheats there to the table. When you have Messi and the Spanish

royal family being brought to account it sends a clear message that no one are above the law.

Well done and in all seriousness the Greek Government should take notice.

[Nemesis7]

Bad days, Government trying to get money from any one and everyone.

[cookee68]

too much money still breads corruption