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| Subject: Despicable injustice: Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax 'fraud' Thu Jul 07, 2016 5:11 am | |
| Barcelona's Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and fined 2 million euros ($A3 million) after being found guilty of three counts of tax fraud, although it is unlikely he will serve time.
The Barcelona court handed the same sentence to the player's father, Jorge, with a 1.5 million euro fine. Both defendants have around five days to appeal to the supreme court, the Barcelona court said in its statement.
Spanish law is such that any sentence under two years for a non-violent crime rarely requires a defendant without previous convictions to serve jail time. A spokeswoman for the court confirmed Messi was unlikely to be imprisoned.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/barcelona-soccer-star-lionel-messi-sentenced-to-21-months-in-prison-for-tax-fraud-20160706-gq05cl.html |
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