MADRID: The Spanish court was dismissed on Friday, a new complaint submitted in 2020 against Lionel Messi Barcelona by a man who accused Argentine football players from fraud, embezzlement and money laundering.
Federico Rettori, an Argentine citizen who lives in Spain who claimed that he had previously worked for Amal Messi, has filed a similar complaint in 2019 which was also dismissed.
In it he claimed that the funds received by the foundation “should be directed to the social cause” instead go “to various private activities or a different bank account than those expressed by the foundation”.
In complaints Rettori submitted in 2020 he returned to the Barcelona striker, charity, his father Jorge and Brother Rodrigo, and added more documents to try his claim.
But the Spanish National Court said in its decision that after two years of investigating “no crime in the part of the person targeted by the complaint can be proven”.
The court also said Rettori was never employed by the Messi Foundation.
Instead he led an association called “El Buen Camino”, or “right path”, who received 150,000 euros ($ 177,000) in 2014 and 2015 to fight baby mortality in Sierra Leone, the court said.
The project was canceled because of the Ebola epidemic in the West African country.