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Thursday, September 05, 2013MADRID, Spain (AP) — A Spanish court has declined a request by the State Agency for Tax Administration to set bail for Lionel Messi and his father in a case of alleged tax fraud after ruling that a payment made satisfied the case’s legal requirements.In a ruling published yesterday, a Catalan court says that a payment of more than 5 million euros (US$6.6 million) made by Jorge Horacio Messi, the Barcelona star’s father, made it unlikely that either Messi or his father would withhold funds “during the legal process of a pending tax fraud trial”.The complaint, originally lodged by Raquel Amado, a state prosecutor for the northeastern region of Catalonia, alleged Messi tried to conceal the extent of his earnings and he owes 4 million euros (US$5.3 million) in back taxes.
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Spanish judge rules Messi should not post bail
