The
Barcelona star faces 3 charges that carry a possible jail sentence. Lionel Messi
and his father Jorge are to face trial over an alleged £3.1m tax fraud.
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| Lionel Messi |
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Messi had thought the case against him would be dropped when he repaid
£3.7 million to Spanish authorities.
But
the Judge in charge of the case rejected a letter of request by the public
lawyer to solely prosecute the footballer’s father.
Both
father and son have been accused of cheating the tax collector out of 4.16
million euros (around £3.1 million) in taxes associated with Messi’s image
rights between 2007 and 2009.
His
father Jorge is claimed to possess funneled cash into fake firms in Belize,
Uruguay, Switzerland and Britain.
Messi
and his father paid five million euros to the tax authorities as a “corrective
payment” when they were formally charged in June 2013.
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