A day after Lionel Messi won a
record sixth Ballon d’Or in Paris, Spain’s National High Court reopened a case
lodged against him by Frederico Rettori, a former employee of his charity
foundation.
Spanish ABC newspaper reported on
Tuesday that Rettori filed a lawsuit against Messi, his father, brother, and
other members of the player’s entourage, in June accusing them of money
laundering, fraud and other financial crimes, connected to the foundation.
Rettori claimed that the
donations to the foundation had not been used for charity work but had been
funnelled to the accounts of Messi’s family members.
In late September, the court
closed the case citing a lack of evidence and that some of the alleged crimes
took place in Argentina, placing them outside of the court’s jurisdiction.
But ABC newspaper said National
High Court’s Judge Maria Tardon has accepted Rettori’s appeal and reopened the
case.
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