Messi Faces 4 Years in Prison after Being Charged with Tax Evasion Officially

Spanish Media said that a judge of Spain accused the Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi and his father of tax evasion.

The court summoned in Barcelona Messi and his father Jorge Oratheo Messi for questioning in September on the back of the case provided by the prosecutors of the Spanish city against them on charges of tax evasion.

According to judicial sources, the judge and the Court agreed to consider the case and the investigation with Messi and his father, who the Interior Ministry accused concealing more than four million euros in tax approves for the period from 2006 until 2009.

In the event of a conviction, Messi and his father could be faced imprisonment for a term of 4 years.

The case file says that the player and his father discourse "total blackout" with the Spanish authorities.

prosecutors had been confirmed through investigation that the process of tax fraud behind Jorge Messi, the father of the player and his agent, where in 2005, when he was the star of Barca is still a minor, commissioned by someone else create a company sham and was later replaced by another, in order to evade taxes.

The prosecution pointed out that the revenue was passed from player States hosting companies that pay for the publicity rights of the player to the sham companies in tax havens almost without being subject to any taxation.

The prosecution also showed that Messi and his father "shed some public data in other file tax returns in order to prevent tax administration from knowing the granting of rights to companies found propaganda abroad."

The prosecution pointed out that the total value of the tax smuggling operations to the player during the seasons of 2007, 2008 and 2009 of up to four million, 164 thousand and 674 euros.