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Messi and his father to stand trial on three counts of tax fraud

This sad development is coming few days after he was cleared of the charges charges. According to Daily Mail, a Spanish court today confirmed that Barcelona talisman, Lionel Messi and his father Jorges are to stand trial on 3 counts of tax fraud that might even come with jail terms. The Judge rejected declined the request of the public prosecutor to try only his father. He and his father allegedly created fake companies in Belize and Uruguay and also defrauded Spain’s tax office of €4m (now £3m) of unpaid taxes from 2007-2009.
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Messi cleared of tax fraud charges but his father faces prison sentence

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Argentine footballer, Lionel Messi has been cleared of tax fraud charges levelled against him in June 2013 but prosecutors are calling for an 18-month prison sentence and a £1.5m fine for his father, Jorge Horacio Messi for allegedly defrauding Spain’s tax office of €4m (now £3m) in unpaid taxes from 2007-09.
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Prosecutors stressed that the Barcelona playmaker should be absorbed of the blame because his father was in charge of his finance during that period, according to the documents provided on Tuesday. Messi who became a resident of Barcelona in 2000 gained Spanish citizenship 5 years later.
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