At the beginning of the week, it was reported that Shakira had reached an agreement to avoid a lawsuit.
Pop superstar Shakira has paid 6.6 million euros to a Spanish court that investigated him on suspicion of tax evasion. The matter was announced by Shakira’s representative on Friday.
At the beginning of the week, it was reported that Shakira had reached an agreement in Spain to avoid trial in another tax evasion case. In that context, the soloist agreed to pay 7.3 million euros.
The newspaper El Periodico reported on Friday that the now reported payment of 6.6 million euros does not mean the singer’s guilt or innocence in the matter, but is “an indication of his willingness to pay any debts he may have to the Spanish tax authorities.”
Colombian-born Shakira had previously rejected a deal offered by prosecutors in the tax dispute. Now he announced in his statement that he decided to agree to the agreement because “my children do not want to see their mother sacrifice her personal well-being in this fight”.
Shakira had already previously paid 17.45 million euros to the Spanish tax authorities in a case where she is suspected of not paying taxes between 2012 and 2014.
In April, Shakira moved from Spain to Miami in the United States with her two sons after separating from their father, a former star soccer defender About Gerard Pique.
Source: AFP