Messi stands trial and possible jail term
In spite of the fact that Lionel Messi has prevented information from securing any wrongdoing while affirming in an assessment case at the Eighth Court of Barcelona, the football virtuoso may confront prison time.
Messi and his dad, Jorge , have been accused of three tallies of expense extortion worth €4.1million, going back to a period from 2007 to 2009.
Procedures started on Tuesday however the Barcelona forward touched base to affirm in individual on Thursday, only four days before he is because of speak to Argentina in the Copa America Centenario in the Unified States.
The 28-year-old precluded information from securing any fake exercises, expressing that football was his lone core interest.
"I never got some information about these things," Messi is cited as telling the court by AS.
" in all actuality, as I said some time recently, I believed him and the legal counselors. I didn't know anything about it, I simply played football."
At the point when addressed about the presence of an organization called Jenbril, enrolled in Uruguay to handle installments identifying with his picture rights, Messi said: "I didn't know I was a part and administrator of this organization, I marked it since he [Jorge Messi] said as much and I believed him and the legal advisors.
" All I knew was that I was marking an arrangement with patrons to do adverts, photograph shoots and things like that.
"I recollect that we went to a public accountant yet I was 18 when I marked it and as you can envision, I was in an alternate world. I don't remember anything about it."
Jorge Messi more than once told the court his child "knew nothing about it"
Messi and his dad, Jorge , have been accused of three tallies of expense extortion worth €4.1million, going back to a period from 2007 to 2009.
Procedures started on Tuesday however the Barcelona forward touched base to affirm in individual on Thursday, only four days before he is because of speak to Argentina in the Copa America Centenario in the Unified States.
The 28-year-old precluded information from securing any fake exercises, expressing that football was his lone core interest.
"I never got some information about these things," Messi is cited as telling the court by AS.
" in all actuality, as I said some time recently, I believed him and the legal counselors. I didn't know anything about it, I simply played football."
At the point when addressed about the presence of an organization called Jenbril, enrolled in Uruguay to handle installments identifying with his picture rights, Messi said: "I didn't know I was a part and administrator of this organization, I marked it since he [Jorge Messi] said as much and I believed him and the legal advisors.
" All I knew was that I was marking an arrangement with patrons to do adverts, photograph shoots and things like that.
"I recollect that we went to a public accountant yet I was 18 when I marked it and as you can envision, I was in an alternate world. I don't remember anything about it."
Jorge Messi more than once told the court his child "knew nothing about it"
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