FOOTBALL NEWS : Panama documents a new episode in the series Messi tax evasion

Considered a scandal documents Panama is just the latest in a player Lionel Messi problems with taxes, a long series episodes, which began three years ago.

 

And waits for Barcelona star, winner of five gold balls, a court ruling in his case because of evasion of payment of funds for the benefit of Spanish taxes, after he was accused of evading payment of four million and 100 thousand euros for profits, obtained from publicity contracts.

In addition, the Argentine captain earlier underwent investigation by Spanish police grounds that his tax fraud a crime because of charity games in which he participated in the period between 2012 and 2013, but that this issue has been saved recently.

She returned "documents Panama", a huge investigative journalism at an international level, revealed the names of many of the characters, who own the companies in some places that are distinctive tax treatment, to put Messi once again at the center of controversy.

And it will be a player of the Catalan club before the court in late May / May next year to stand trial on the occasion of the issue of tax evasion, a crime that could immerse the star of Barcelona in prison for 22 months and a half month.

He called the lawyer year, which represents the Spanish IRS in this case, the punishment mentioned in the right Messi and his father, Jorge, grounds for committing three tax crimes in the period between 2007 and 2009.

And accused the Spanish IRS Argentine player evasion four million and 100 thousand euros (four million and 600 thousand dollars), based on the issued by the Tax Authority on income data during the years 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Although the Argentine player said he has nothing to do with the management of fiscal and financial transactions its own, the attorney general insisted on being accused, contrary to what she had seen the prosecution, which found an excuse for the player focused on the accusations of his father.

The charges against Messi on it to establish a joint-stock companies where to enjoy the unique tax systems in order to avoid paying any money to the IRS.

Two months later on charges of tax evasion, the Messi and his father, against the backdrop of a complaint of behalf of economic crimes, to pay the sum of five million euros (five million and 600 thousand dollars) in order to cover the amount, which was the subject of being accused of committing a crime of tax fraud in the period between 2007 and 2009.

In addition, the newspaper "La Banjuardia" Catalan revealed that the Argentine player reconcile with the taxes and to provide clarification on the estimated amount of 53 million euros, since the outbreak of the case.

And he has been charged with tax fraud for Messi in the June 12, 2013, but, according to the narrator newspaper "Alkonfydensaal", the player, after that date by one day, bought the company in Panama by one of the law firms in Uruguay.

"Alkonfydensaal" is one of the international media surveys, which led the investigation into this matter.

It is likely to cause the recent leaks in the new problems for the Argentine striker, which was closed in December / December last year on a temporary basis a judicial files, which assailed him in the recent period.

In that period, the Spanish judiciary has decided to close the case in which the accused Messi because charity matches, fought in the period between 2012 and 2013, after the conviction of the court preclusion evidence of the crime of tax fraud by a Barcelona player.

The court said in its decision that Messi has not received any money-peer participation in the six charity matches in several cities around the world, and games, that Spanish police suspected of being a way to launder some of the money resulting from the drug trade.

Those were the games bearing the name "Messi and his friends in the face of the rest of the world" or "clash of stars."

And adopted the trial judge in his decision on the certificate of Argentine Guillermo Javier, in charge of organizing the games in question, who emphasized that the participation of Messi in that sports events were free of charge.

According to the competent court and that the case was moved based on a report submitted by money laundering body of the police line, which pointed to the possibility of committing a crime Messi tax fraud related to a huge sum of money obtained in exchange for his participation in some charity games.

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