British Banker involved in Lionel Messi Tax Problems kills himself

As if it was not interesting enough that despite an agreement with the Spanish tax authorities to drop the case against Lionel Messi, a Spanish court decided to go on with the case, it is being reported by the Daily Mail, that a British banker who designed the plan killed himself in April.  

According to the Daily Mail, "David Waygood, who died last year aged 62, was the sole director of a firm which Spanish prosecutors claim hid tax owed by Messi.  Earlier this week, a judge in Barcelona ruled that Messi, 27, and his father Jorge should be charged with tax evasion after prosecutors claimed the pair hid more than £3million in shell firms in the UK, Switzerland, Uruguay and Belize.  One of the British firms was looked after at the time by Mr Waygood, a banker who had previously worked for HSBC and NatWest.  The Spanish prosecution alleged that the company held shares anonymously in a British-based nominee company."