Messi and another complaint for fraud and money laundering

The FC Barcelona player and captain of the Argentine national team, Lionel Messi, has been denounced at the National Court of Barcelona, with his father Jorge Horacio Messi and his brother Rodrigo Messi and the Leo Messi Foundation, by the former employee of the Federico Rettori Foundation, for alleged crimes of fraud and money laundering through the foundation.

In a complaint to which you had access Europa Press, after an information published by the newspaper ABCwho is waiting to be admitted or not to be treated by a chamber of the national court, Rettori badures that "Leo" Messi and his surroundings would have benefited from the Foundation to receive personal payments that were not intended for social purposes and thereby get rid of the payment of taxes to the Treasury.

"The funds initially intended for social actions were diverted to other types of activities or private accounts than those declared by the said foundation", denounces Rettori, collaborator of the Foundation between 2012 and 2015.

The complaint therefore concerns "alleged crimes against the Treasury, accounting crimes, fraud and money laundering" according to several facts.

Among them, the plaintiff badures that the Leo Messi Foundation "never register with the Catalan Register of Foundations" and that this means that all these years "it has operated without any kind of control or responsibility in any official organ ".

Until 2013, they were released, before it was unearthed the case in which "Leo" Messi was sentenced, at a particular level with his father, to pay more than 2 million dollars. Euros for three tax offenses. .

He also claims that the footballer and his club, FC Barcelona, ​​used the Leo Messi Foundation to avoid paying taxes. "All these years, the Leo Messi Foundation has received donations from the FC Barcelona." In order to receive donations, the Messi Foundation should have been registered (in the register), "says the complainant.

"He used tax advantages that did not correspond to him legally, which allowed FC Barcelona and the Foundation to save several million euros.The club has obtained tax deductions of 35% of the Company tax and Messi has avoided paying 45% of taxes.The tax on the physical income of the people since civil organizations with charitable purpose do not pay tax on the donations they receive ", was -he declares.

Rettori cites several movements and revenues in the Foundation that have no evidence or badociated social actions, and provides proof in the complaint. "The total expenditures over these five years are extremely high for a foundation with a single employee and regardless of the audience, from which one deduces his fictional activity and which serves as a screen to mask the income of those who have been reported, "he says.