Barcelona striker Lionel Messi, who is under investigation in Spain for tax fraud allegations, paid €10 million to the Spanish tax authorities to correct tax returns for 2010 and 2011, according to Spanish media reports.
The news, reported by la Vanguardia newspaper and citing unnamed sources, comes one week after Messi and his father, Jorge Messi, were accused of defrauding the Spanish tax office of €4m earned from image rights on Messi’s income tax returns from the years 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Messi in recent days made the €10m payment to the Spanish tax authorities for «image rights income,» according to La Vanguardia. The newspaper added that a source said Messi seeks a deal that would allow him to clarify what occurred over the three years in question.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald