‘I don’t know what I sign’, Messi told judge in fraud case

Argentina star Lionel Messi, who is due to go on trial in Barcelona for alleged tax fraud, t

(FILES) This file photo taken on September 27, 2013, shows Barcelona football star Lionel Messi arriving at the courthouse in the coastal town of Gava near Barcelona on September 27, 2013, to face judges on tax evasion charges. Argentina star Lionel Messi, one of the world’s highest-paid athletes, goes on trial in Barcelona on May 31, for allegedly defrauding Spain of over four million euros in unpaid taxes. PHOTO: AFP / LLUIS GENE

old a judge that he never looks at the contracts he signs, the El Periodico daily said Monday.
The newspaper got access to Messi’s September 2013 statement to a judge and published extracts just a day before the five-time World Player of the Year and his father stand trial.
“I signed things, but I never look at the contracts. I don’t know what I sign,” he allegedly said.
Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, are accused of using a chain of fake companies in Belize and Uruguay to avoid paying taxes on 4.16 million euros ($4.7 million) of Messi’s income earned through the sale of his image rights from 2007-09.
They have been charged with three counts of tax fraud.
According to the alleged statement published by the Barcelona daily, the judge showed him several sponsorship contracts that he signed, but he did not remember them.
“This is something that my dad manages. And I trust him. I devote myself to playing football,” he reportedly said.
“I do what he tells me to.”
Spanish prosecutors are seeking a jail sentence of 22-and-a-half months for Messi and his father if they are found guilty, plus fines equivalent to the amount that was allegedly defrauded.
But any such sentence would likely be suspended as is common in Spain for first offences carrying a sentence of less than two

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DETHRONEMENT!

Breaking News! One of Miss Nollywood Queens, Grace Okoro Adaeze Miss Nollywood Culture and Tourism 2016 has been Dethroned...

This is to Notify the Public (social Media, Press, Prints) and all news platforms that Grace is no longer a queen of Nollywood.. For going against the policies and rules of Miss Nollywood Organisation...

1.Miss Grace impose herself a manager one Robyn Gawa, who is an imposter, a fake Manager Not recognised by the Organisation, who carries himself as a worker of MNF, we are clarifying that Robyn Gawa is neither a worker nor among the MNF organising team..

No Queen in any part of the world has the right to name herself a manager, without the approval of the Organisation, It's an insult..

2. As a Queen of Nollywood whatever that happens to her, is on the Organisation, But Grace appears in Programs (travels all around) without the consent of the organisation, even when she was told to return she replied MNF in quote 'No one can stop me'.
The organisation has been very lenient with Miss Grace and she was warned severally..

3. Grace was recently in Bayelsa, where the organiser EBarakumo Odede is based, but she cared less about informing him, She Lodged in a Hotel with her fake Manager and stayed for over a week, The Organisation knows nothing of what they did, If not for the good relationship the MNF have with Hotels, which led to reliable sources contacting us if we are aware of Grace's whereabouts?

4. During her stay, Grace was even asked if she had told her Boss of her travel.. she confirmed that 'I don't really think it's he's business'..

5. Out of the great love the organisation has for her, and due to how she was picked, built up and changed to become a better person, we endured and warned her of her Behaviour more than we can count.. Grace is now too big for the Organisation, she's rude, we cannot contain her arrogancy anymore..

Therefore Miss Grace Okoro Adaeze has been brought down in compliance with the policies of Miss Nollywood Beauty Pageant and has been Dethroned..
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