The Spanish newspaper (El Pais) on Wednesday ensured that
the Barcelona player Lionel Messi and his father keep studying for the
management of his fortune, to entrust it to companies "more
professional" after the controversy that was raised recently about the
Argentine star.
The newspaper wrote, “close advisers to the Argentine
striker advised that immediately disengage his father in the management of his
business."
(El Pais) quoted from
close sources to the Barcelona striker “number one football player has to
contend with more professional company."
The newspaper added Spanish "Recent events have
convinced the player to come out of the need to manage its affairs for the
scope of the family to the scope of a professional."
And it damaged the public image of Messi, who was named the
best player in the world during the last four years, due to scandals outside of
football stadiums in the past months.
In addition to the financial problems with Spanish, added to
this week's news that some of the games played by charities this year are
investigated by the police, on suspicion that they took advantage in money
laundering coming from the drug trade.
With regard to this matter, it has been investigated with
Messi on 29 November last year as a witness along with his colleagues in
Barcelona Dani Alves and Jose Manuel Pinto and Javier Mascherano, who also took
part in a charity match held at June 21, 2012 in Bogota.
According to (El Pais) Messi confirmed in the investigation that
it did not get or any of his colleagues in Barcelona funds to meet those games.
He stressed that the only money he got it was transferred to the account of the
charity that bears his name.
Messi said to the
Spanish Civil Guard (police), according to a novel paper "my foundation
got a sum of money, I do not remember the amount, but it was written-sized huge,
me and Barcelona were photographed. Thereafter Foundation provides these funds
to other organizations, non-governmental charity."
Suspicion about Andres Barco, Colombian businessman
specializing in the promotion of shows and events, as a leader of the
laundering network money.
Messi also admitted in the investigation that he did not
know the non-governmental organizations that have been referred to the transfer
of funds, and whether the money has already been converted: "That’s what I
think I am, but I do not know for sure.”
However, the newspaper (El Mundo) put a headline today in
which it said “it has not received any non-governmental organization anything
behind Messi in both games of Columbia.”
It added, “were not two charities, but only trade for some ... Messi played two games in Columbia , last
June , and while they paid for him and some of his 2.5 million dollars ,
according to what was confirmed by one of the businessmen who brought him ,
Organizers lost money and also did not convert funds to any organization .
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