Football Soccer star Lionel Messi injured his thigh in yesterday’s game against Almeria (a game his team won, 2-0). Messi will miss two to three weeks with the injury.
Meanwhile, Lionel Messi and his father are accused of something more familiar to readers of this blog: cheating on their taxes. Messi is alleged to have created shell companies in Uruguay, Belize, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to hide income (his image rights) from Spain and the Spanish income tax agency, Agencia Tributaria, from 2006 through 2009. The UK Telegraph reports that Messi and his father have made a five million euro “corrective payment.”
A judge will rule on whether to dismiss the charges or impose a fine. If found guilty, the maximum fine he could face is €24 Million (just over $31 million at today’s exchange rates) and potentially five years in prison.
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