Javier Mascherano

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Barcelona's Javier Mascherano sentenced to 1-year imprisonment.

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Barcelona
player, Javier Mascherano has been sentenced to 1-year imprisonment following
charges of tax evasion. The former Liverpool midfielder has also been fined €815,000. Mascherano failed to declare income of
about 1.5m euros  generated from image
rights between 2011 and 2012. He pleaded guilty and reportedly accepted the jail
term.
 Below is an official
statement he released on
his twitter page.
“I’m
a professional sportsman and I don’t know a lot about legal and financial
matters.
“Therefore
I must rely on the people that manage these technical, and for me, complicated,
issues.
“All
my career I have been an honest and responsible person… I will take this
experience that has accosted me as another experience which I will leave
stronger and calmed by the fact that I am once again within the law.”
Meanwhile his Wikipedia page has been edited.
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Barcelona player sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Barcelona defender, Javier Mascherano has been sentenced to 12 months
of jail term after pleading guilty in tax
fraud case. He was also fined €815,000. The former Liverpool player was
charged with two counts of tax frauds, €600,000 in 2011 and more than €968,000
in 2012.  

Fortunately for the 31-year-old, he will not serve the sentence
because the case is a non-violent one. Normally, Spanish courts generally do
not ask the accused to serve the sentence if the case is non-violent and the
jail-time needed to be served is less than two years but he will face the jail
if he commits the offence again in the next 1 year.
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