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Urgent: Messi sentenced to 21 months in prison

Xinhua, July 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Barcelona striker Lionel Messi and his father have been sentenced to 21 months in jail for tax fraud, a court in Spain said on Wednesday.

However, under Spanish law a prison sentence under two years can be served under probation.

They were also fined a total of 3.7 million euros (4.1 million US dollars). Endit