Legal: Lionel Messi sentenced to 21 months in prison (tax evasion), but he will not serve time

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The Argentine Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, were sentenced to 21 months imprisonment and were fined €3.69m in total for tax evasion, announced the court of Barcelona (ESP), on 06/07/2016. The player, however, will not face imprisonment because in Spain, judgments of under 24 months in jail result in a...

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