A Spanish judge approved this Tuesday (27/9) that Colombian singer Shakira is being tried on charges of tax fraud.
Spanish prosecutors accuse the artist of failing to pay € 14.5 million in taxes on his income from 2012 to 2014. Prosecutors are demanding an eight-year prison sentence and a hefty fine if found guilty of tax evasion .
The 45-year-old artist has always denied the allegations. “These accusations are false,” Shakira said in an interview published last Wednesday (9/21) by Elle magazine, reinforcing that she had “done things in the most correct and transparent way since day one”.
The prosecutor and the singer’s defense sought a deal to avoid trial, but in July Shakira renounced that possibility, as she was confident “that justice will prove her right,” according to her legal representatives in Barcelona.
According to his defense, “the Public Prosecutor’s Office worked to collect the money earned in [suas] international tours and on ‘The Voice’ “, an American television program in which he participated, at a time when” he was not yet resident in Spain “.
In an interview with Elle, Shakira accused the Spanish Treasury of using “an obscene press campaign to try to influence people and pressure the media to create a threat of reputational damage to force conciliation agreements”.
“Everyone knows that the Spanish tax authorities usually do it not only with famous people like me, either [Cristiano] Ronaldo, Neymar, [Xabi] Alonso and many others, but also unfairly to other anonymous contributors, “added the singer.
Shakira’s name appeared in the so-called Pandora Papers, an in-depth investigation of millions of leaked documents published in 2021 by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which accused hundreds of personalities of having resorted to tax havens to avoid paying taxes.
In his action, the prosecutor claims that he has lived in Spain since at least fiscal year 2012, shortly after starting his relationship with FC Barcelona player Gerard Piqué, but kept his tax residency in the Bahamas until 2015. consider a paradise. .
Shakira and Piké, who have two children, announced their separation in June.
The singer is currently recording her participation in the “Zootopia +” series, in which she voices a character, due out in November on the Disney + platform.
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