Shakira filed in court the 6.6 million euros claimed by the prosecution for tax evasion in 2018, in the second case opened for offenses against the Spanish treasury.
According to the legal sources who informed EFE, the artist handed over the allegedly defrauded amount to a court of inquiry in Esplugues de Llobregat, near Barcelona, in August, while waiting for the judge to call her to testify as being under investigation for it. second case. open.
The amount sent by the singer, according to El Periódico de Catalunya, would allow her to benefit from a mitigation for compensation for the damage in case she is convicted of tax fraud again, having returned the money she allegedly escaped.
It was this mitigating circumstance that led to the agreement reached by the artist last Monday, November 20, with the prosecution and private charges by the Spanish Tax Agency and the regional government of Catalonia to avoid prison, in exchange for a million dollar fine, in his first trial for tax fraud in Spain.
Shakira was hit with almost €7.8 million in fines after admitting in court to defrauding the Treasury of €14.5 million between 2012 and 2014, with a three-year prison sentence for six crimes against the State, which she will not have to serve by agreeing in this payment. EFE explains.
Before the prosecution filed its complaint, Shakira had already returned the defrauded 14.5 million to the Ministry of Finance, which did not stop the public ministry from continuing its criminal activities.
The tax scam of 2018
The singer has another case open at the Spanish National Court’s litigious-administrative division for alleged tax fraud committed in 2011, for which she has already disbursed around 60 million euros while still awaiting the resolution of her appeal. resolution.
In the new complaint being investigated by the Esplugues de Llobregat court, the prosecution accuses Shakira of defrauding 5.3 million from her 2018 income tax return, corresponding to the income from her tour that year and from the transfer of her copyright, plus another 773,600 euros in property tax for the nearly 12 million he owns in real estate and financial assets.
To defraud the Treasury, the prosecution claims, the defendant used a corporate framework and submitted “false returns” of income tax, in which she omitted to declare income and deducted expenses that were not appropriate, thus managing to reduce the tax she had to pay in the Ministry of Finance, EFE explained.
Source: univision
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