Javier Thebes: "Messi is not a criminal, did not know at all"

Few have been, far of the FC Barcelona, those that have given the face by Leo Messi after knowing his excessive conviction to 21 months of prison by fiscal fraud. But one of these, although it seem surprising, has been the president of LaLiga and madridista confeso, Javier Thebes. The maximum mandator of the championship treated to elucidate what could have sucedido in his case.

"I do not think that Messi was a criminal. I think that it did not know at all", it affirmed Thebes in an act organised by the European Parliament on amaños of parties and illegal bets. Later it left clear that does not think that there is a black hand against Leo only that it subjected to a fiscal process stranger for him.

The president of The League does not think that Messi was a criminal in spite of being condemned beside his father with 21 months of prison by fiscal crime
"It subjected to a risky fiscal structure that has carried him to this consequence", commented the president to add that "we can not forget that the player has contributed more than 160 million euros to the State and with them have been able to do roads, hospitals...".

"I do not think that there is black hand neither persecution against Messi or the FC Barcelona" since "the world of the sport is being investigated". Thebes did not speak, therefore, of the black hand that it could arrive from Madrid in shape of a lawyer of the State madridista and ex directive of the Real Madrid. To conclude his intervention, the director of LaLiga spoke of the illegal bets and concluded standing out that "it is the greater threat that there is in the sport, even more than the doping".