Messi, investigated by moving money in their friendly matches B

One million euros from the organizers of some games ended in a tax haven in the name of society Marin Messi

Leo Messi is back in the spotlight for tax offenses. The anti-money laundering unit of the Guardia Civil is investigating five wire transfers amounting to almost a million euros from the organizers at least two charity matches "Messi and his friends against the rest of the world", according to El País. These related parties intervened in Argentina Barcelona player transfers between 2012 and 2013 ended in a company located in the tax haven of Curacao (the Netherlands Antilles, the southeastern Caribbean), the newspaper said.

Researchers have opened proceedings for the alleged crimes of money laundering and tax fraud.

The evidence as such transfers company G. Marín-Messi appears as the recipient. Guillermo Marín is a personal friend of Messi and Messi trusted person in managing their charity matches. Both the player and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, acknowledge friendship with Guillermo Marin and his efforts in those matches. "It is an Argentine businessman I know since 2006 and organizes matches my Foundation" as a witness confessed Barcelona player to the Civil Guard.

"La Guardia Civil-added information-was interested more about who contacted Guillermo Marin. "I do not, which is contact my father," added the Argentine footballer. Both Messi and father have stated as witnesses and both agree that there was no personal gain in those games, but the lawyer in Spain of society Total Concerts (which organized the charity match in Colombia) has submitted to the Civil Guard five documents bank transfers in which it is shown that both Messi and other players present in Colombia charged money for that act.

He has also contributed a sixth proof of payment of nearly 75,000 euros to society STI Travel, SA, to manage the travel and stay of the players, which include Dani Alves, Mascherano and Pinto, co-Messi in Barcelona.

These three players told the Civil Guard that they had not received money from these meetings, although they acknowledged the payment of travel and subsistence.

"The research, based on witness statements, argues that Messi received two of the four million dollars donated by Andrew Barco (company VP Total Concerts) Guillermo Marín," reports the newspaper. The investigated matches were played between 2012 and 2013 in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and the United States.

Research on these charity matches is not related to the file you opened the Tax Agency Messi Spain a few months ago to hide payments to the Treasury.
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