Leo Messi is on track to get his career as a fraudster reach the fame of his extraordinary sporting merit. The star of FC Barcelona only took a few hours to launch a new network of tax fraud after the Spanish Tax Agency discovered that he had designed a corporate network to hide their income from image rights and thereby avoid the taxes that He had to pay to the Treasury. On June 13, 2013, just one day after knowing that had evaded 4.1 million euros, the player and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, they used a Uruguayan firm to form a Panamanian company with which would have continued billing their rights image behind the tax.
The discovery of this new company controlled by Messi, who is active and has escaped so far of inspections of the Spanish authorities, has been possible thanks to joint research and exclusive of the Confidential and The Sixth 'Papers of Panama' as part of a work led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Messi and his father reproduced the pattern of large networks laundering. Documents to which this newspaper has had access show that the Uruguayan firm Abreu, Abreu & Ferres started the same June 13, 2013 the process to acquire Panamanian company Mega Star Entreprises Inc. The company was created on February 8, 2012 by the office of the Central American country Guardia & Co. but I had no activity, so the Uruguayan firm launched the necessary mechanisms for aquirirla and place in front of society to alleged front men with the intention of using it to hide assets or capital one of its customers.
