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Javier Mascherano sentenced to jail over tax evasion, see photo!

Barcelona star Javier Mascherano is sentenced to a year in prison over £1.2million tax fraud – but is set to avoid jail by paying £625,000 fine 
Javier Mascherano attended hearing at the Court of Barcelona on Thursday, The Barcelona defender admitted two counts of tax evasion totaling £1.1m, He admitted the offences last year and paid back the amount with interest.
Mascherano was handed a one-year prison sentence but will not serve time, Lionel Messi also has a tax fraud trial set for May 31-June 3 in Barcelona.

Javier Mascherano has been sentenced to a year in prison and fined €815,000 (£625,000) for two tax offences.
However, the Barcelona star is not likely to be spending a year behind bars, after his lawyer David Aineto requested the prison sentence to be substituted for the fine, which he is yet to pay.
Mascherano’s lawyer is also attempting to have the offences removed from his criminal record by paying an additional
fine.
In Spain people handed sentences of less than two years are not normally required to serve their sentence, unless they are being punished for violent crime, if they agree to a fine.
Mascherano, 31, was given four-month and eight-month sentences for the two offences which took place in 2011 and 2012.
The Argentine star had already repaid the full €1.6million (£1.15million) debt owed to the tax authorities before he was given his punishment.
   
   
   
  
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