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Lionel Messi: I don't know what I sign

Updated on: 31 May,2016 08:49 AM IST  | 
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Argentina star Lionel Messi, who is due to go on trial in Barcelona for alleged tax fraud, told a judge that he never looks at the contracts he signs, the El Periodico daily said yesterday

Lionel Messi: I don't know what I sign

Lionel Messi

Barcelona: Argentina star Lionel Messi, who is due to go on trial in Barcelona for alleged tax fraud, told a judge that he never looks at the contracts he signs, the El Periodico daily said yesterday.


Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi


The newspaper got access to Messi's September 2013 statement to a judge and published extracts just a day before the football star and his father stand trial.


"I signed things, but I never look at the contracts. I don't know what I sign," he allegedly said.

Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, are accused of using a chain of fake companies in Belize and Uruguay to avoid paying taxes on 4.16 million euros ($4.7 million) of Messi's income earned through the sale of his image rights from 2007-09.

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