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Lionel Messi 21 months in jail for tax fraud

The Provincial Court of Barcelona has sentenced Lionel Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio, to 21 months in prison for three fiscal offenses. Last June, the Barca player and his father were tried for defrauding 4.1 million euros to the Treasury in 2007, 2008 and 2009, a result of not having income taxed in Spain received 10.1 million by image rights of rosarino front during that period. The sentence will be appealed by the lawyers Messi. Being a sentence less than two years the judge has the option to suspend the entry into prison convicts.

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