The Barcelona football star Lionel Messi were involved in tax fraud and according to the court officials he has been sentenced jail for 21 months last year in the month of july. With his father he took the help of the best of lawyers and got out of the situation, well this is not something new to amuse all the celebrities at some point go through scams but to the fans of Lionel Messi was saddening because they could never imagined him in this situation.
From 2007 to 2009 Lionel Messi and his father had done fraud in the Spanish tax amount 3.9 crore, due to this a huge amount of fine was slapped on them.
But as days went by they managed to take the help of the best advocates and somehow overshadowed the case but now the Supreme Court has decided to give them 21 months of jail sentence. As his father is a senior citizen he has been given a compensation of months but he has to go to jail for 15 months.
But Spanish law is totally different it works in a different manner, if the jail sentence is under 2 years then they can compensation and can be prohibited according to the law. The rule applies only if the person has no past records of crime then he can be escaped, so mostly Lionel Messi won’t be jailed.
When asked to the FC Barcelona team leader they said that “Leo messi and his father who has been claimed of 21 months jail sentenced have complete support of the Barcelona with due respect to the court. With the facts which are stated they don’t come under criminals.”
Let’s see what is the next step of the court but usually such cases are close down due to lot of political pressure and the compensation paid by them.