The Barcelona and Argentine team
striker Lionel Messi paid during the past ten days millions of euros through
tax declarations supplementary affidavits in 2010 and 2011, according to the
newspaper (LA Ban Guardia) Spanish Monday.
The newspaper pointed out it is a
splash quoted source close to the case of the accused where Messi and his
father, tax evasion, arguing that such a step may seek the player from which to
settle the case.
Sources close to the
investigation, that Messi pay ten million euros in taxes on the promotional
rights for the years 2010 and 2011.
The (LA Ban Guardia) pointed out
that the player pay this amount via a supplementary tax return is considered a
correction to approve the tax for the years 2010 and 2011, after he had
submitted to the Ministry of Finance.
The sources added to newspaper
that Messi vowed to repay the money owed with respect to the rights of
publicity as looking at the current time for an agreement allowing clarifying
the cause of the error actually in the tax returns for the three years for
which spin investigations are 2007, 2008 and 2009.
One of the courts of the city of
Barcelona has summoned last Thursday Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi,
for questioning on the background of the case made by the Public Prosecutor for
economic crimes in the Spanish city against them on charges of committing three
crimes against public funds during the years 2007, 2008 and 2009, where they
hid for more than four million euros in their tax declarations.
The prosecution said that Messi
refuged "in order to evade taxes" for the conclusion of contracts for
advertising rights with front companies based in countries known as havens for
tax evasion, such as Belize, Uruguay, Britain and Switzerland, headquarters.
The law provides for prison
sentences of two to six years and a fine of two to six times, when it increases
the tax money smuggled from 600 thousand euros, a situation that could apply to
the Argentine star.
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