Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi and father condemned to 21 months in prison on tax charges, reports newspaper La Vanguardia.
The Argetine forward and his father Jorge have been sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax fraud, but won’t spent any time behind bars.
The Messis were found to have evaded tax on Lionel’s image rights, owing more than €4m in back payments, and the Court of Catalonia has sentenced the pair to just under two years in prison.
However, as the sentence is short of two years, and neither Lionel nor Jorge have a criminal record, they won’t be required to serve any jail time.
Leo Messi had argued that he wasn’t aware of the tax arrangements set in place by his father and other advisors, but the state attorney, Mario Maza, compared the player to a mafia boss, who has deniability on the illegal goings-on in his name, El Periodico notes.
The sentence, which can be appealed in Spain’s supreme court, is for three tax crimes.
As well as the prison sentence, Messi has been fined two million euros.
His father was given the same jail sentence and a fine of 1.5 million euros.
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