Africa Top Sports announced you yesterday, the four -time Argentinean Golden Ball Lionel Messi and his father are suspected of tax fraud and are under investigation. According to the Spanish press, they would have hidden to the tax system over 4 million between 2006 and 2009.

Did Lionel Messi really have the intension to dribble the tax system?

The second richest sportsman in the world (according to Forbes magazine) risk a prison sentence ranging from 2 to 6 years and a fine ranging from two to six times the amount he would have hidden, the newspaper AS resumed  by lemonde.fr. Such a sanction will hit hard the player’s career. Analysts are already talking about his probable departure from Spain after these incidents.

The star has refuted the whole accusation on his Facebook page: “We have always respected our tax obligations in accordance with the recommendations of our tax advisors who will be responsible to clarify the situation.”