No Surprise in the tax affair, the Argentine Lionel Messi: The Barca-professional must not only not in jail, he may even look forward to the conversion of his sentence of imprisonment to a monetary penalty.
The five-time world footballer Lionel Messi has to because of its control, a monetary penalty offense to be paid from 252.000 Euro. The competent court in Barcelona transformed on Friday as expected, the prison sentence against the striker of the FC Barcelona 21 months in a fine. The court came in response to pressure from Messi’s lawyers that their client should have to pay for the next 21 months, 400 euros per day.
24. In may, the Supreme court of Spain had confirmed the 21-month prison sentence against Messi, who had renewed on Wednesday its contract with the Catalans until 2021. As is customary in Spain, didn’t have to compete with the exception of kicker, this sentence of under two years. In the first instance, the 29-Year-old was sentenced to a fine in the amount of two million euros.
Messi and his father Jorge, whose 15-month sentence was also converted into a fine (180,000 euros), have moved according to the court, through front companies in Belize, the UK, Switzerland and Uruguay between 2007 and 2009 taxes in the amount of a total of 4.16 million euros.
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