Barcelona To Face Tax Fraud Trial Over Neymar's Transfer

Spain's National Court has accepted the state prosecutor's request to open a trial against Barcelona for alleged tax evasion linked to the signing of Neymar.

As mentioned in ESPN, the trial centres around investigators' allegations the club only declared that they paid €57.1 million for the player when they actually paid "at least'' €83.3 million. A statement from the court read that the judge has issued a decree for the opening trial against the president of Barcelona, José Maria Bartomeu, his predecessor, Sandro Rosell and the club itself for crimes against the Treasury and corporate crime. Bartomeu took over when Rosell resigned in January 2014 after being named a suspect in the case and investigated for misappropriating funds to hide the full transfer cost of Neymar.