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Barcelona's Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in jail and fined Â£1.7million over tax charges. A Spanish court found the 29-year-old Argentina striker and his father Jorge guilty of three counts of tax fraud.
Despite Messiâs familial connection to Barcelona, he is an Argentinian national. The most severe penalty, the one that is MOST heavily speculated about, is whether or not the football starâs antics will land him in jail. While jail time is always a possibility for this type of crime, Messiâs fame and overall wealth makes one skeptical about this specific outcome.