In July 6, 2016 he was taken to court with his father. In Spain and Switzerland was where they made the tax fraud. I can tell by the look of their face they were both nervous and scared. Messi and his father were both found guilty and they well both sentence 21 months in prison. Although Messi was telling the judge that his father was behind all this because he was the one that was doing all the taxes and media thing meanwhile he was focusing with his sport. Most likely that they well not do any jail time because he will be paying the fine of 2 million euros. Fc Barcelona comments that
“We will always be here for Messi and will support him”
Messi responds “Thank you very much you guys are family” …show more content…
So they are likely not to do jail time. Lionel Messi nicely said, “ I have the money to pay for my father and myself.”
Messi paid the fine of 2.5 euros for himself and his father but it's not done yet because he has to go to his trail. It was really shocking to see what just happen, what they both going though because Messi and his father are really great person. Nobody really expected this from a responsible young man do this fraud. The message that I am trying to send out to everyone is to pay what got to