Messi Should Be Cleared of Tax Evasion, Prosecutor Says

A Spanish prosecutor recommended that Lionel Messi, the captain of Argentina’s national soccer team, be cleared of tax evasion while keeping his father an official suspect.

“Messi didn’t participate in the decision making of the management and use of his earnings,” prosecutor Raquel Amado said in a presentation, a copy of which was e-mailed to Bloomberg News. “It was his father who, advised by third parties that reported to him and not to the player, decided on the management and allocation of his son’s earnings.”