Ex-Barça FC chair and son jailed for 'bribing tax inspectors'
Monday, November 17, 2014 @ 3:06 PM
A FORMER chairman of Barça FC and his son have been sent to prison to serve a two-year sentence for allegedly bribing the tax authorities to turn a blind eye to the club's accounts.
Josep Lluís Núñez, 81, a retired building contractor and property development boss, and his son Josep Lluís Núñez i Navarro have been taken to the Quatre Camins jail in La Roca del Vallès in the province of Barcelona where they will each be held for 26 months.
They were given 10 days' grace at the beginning of November after their appeal failed.
Núñez Senior (pictured) had applied for a formal pardon, or reprieve, which only the government has the jurisdiction to grant, and had called for his entering prison to be postponed until he received an answer.
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