SHAKIRA. The Spanish prosecution requested this Friday, July 29 more than eight years in prison against the Colombian star Shakira, accused of tax evasion.
Shakira “confident that justice will prove her right.” This Friday, July 29, the Spanish prosecutor’s office requested more than eight years in prison against the Colombian singer, whom he accuses of tax evasion. Justice accuses the star of not having paid his taxes in Spain between 2011 and 2014, while she was residing there, according to her. However, the proceedings only concern the period 2012-2014, the facts dating back to 2011 being already time-barred. Total amount alleged? 14.5 million euros.
Shakira had been living in Spain since 2011, with footballer Gerard Pique, from whom she separated last June. However, she would have maintained her tax residence in the Bahamas, considered a tax haven, until 2015. For her part, the singer’s defense estimates that over the period indicated, the largest part of her income came from her international tours. . Shakira’s lawyers assure that she did not live more than six months a year in Spain, the condition to be tax resident in the country.
Faced with these accusations, the Colombian singer denies the facts and wishes to go to trial. “Absolutely certain of her innocence”, Shakira “does not accept an agreement” with the prosecution “and decides to continue” the procedure until the trial, had indicated her advice in a press release, assuring that the star was “confident in the fact that justice will prove him right.”