Former
Liverpool star Javier Mascherano has been sentenced to a year in prison and
fined €815,000 (£625,000) for two tax offences.
However, the
star is not likely to be spending a year behind bars, as his lawyer David
Aineto has requested the prison sentence to be substituted for a 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.
Javier
Mascherano leaves court in Barcelona on Thursday after admitting two counts of
tax fraud.
Mascherano
(left), who paid the amount with interest last year, has to pay a fine of
£625,000 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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