{"id":198028,"date":"2014-06-19T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/messi-tax-charges-to-be-dropped\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T08:30:44","slug":"messi-tax-charges-to-be-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/06\/19\/messi-tax-charges-to-be-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi Tax Charges To Be Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/a7c6730131388_681549.jpg\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:1px solid #999; padding:1px; margin-top:2px;\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">The Spanish prosecution service believe the Barcelona attacker is not guilty of the fraud allegations but will continue to pursue his father<br \/>Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is to set to have tax fraud charges against him dropped, but the Spanish judicial system will continue to push for a conviction for his father.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old had been hit with allegations in the past year which suggested he was guilty of tax avoidance to the sum of \u20ac4.1 million between 2006 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Messi and his father, Jorge Messi, paid just over \u20ac5m to authorities after the Argentina international insisted he had no knowledge of the allegations and denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>A letter from the prosecution involved in the case seems to agree with Lionel&#8217;s stance but, although the Barca star is now out of the legal spotlight, his father remains under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lionel A. Messi was not involved in the decision-taking on the management and channelling of his income and did not really know the scope, size, purpose or effects of the corporate network,&#8221; the Europa Press reports the prosecution as stating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[However, his father had] full knowledge of the consequences for committing fraud with the Spanish Tax Agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter also claims the four-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner was just following orders from his father and that his signature on the documents was just &#8220;for the purpose of knowledge and ratification&#8221; regarding image rights.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that Messi&#8217;s image rights were sold by Jorge &#8211; who assumed full responsibility when the case began &#8211; using companies in the likes of Belize and Uruguay to avoid Spanish tax obligations.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish prosecution service believe the Barcelona attacker is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}