TAX FRAUD TRAILS BARCELONA STAR, LIONEL MESSI

Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi is currently being investigated in Spain over $5.3 million in unpaid tax. The lawsuit is also filed against his father, Jorge Horacio Messi.

While the Argentine's net annual salary is put at over 16m Euros, he is allegedly defrauding millions on income tax returns for 2007-2009.

The complaint which was lodged by a Spanish state prosecutor of Catalonia and signed by prosecutor Raquel Amado has been submitted for trial at a courthouse in Gava, the Barcelona district where the 25yr-old lives.




Source: BBC