The Colombian singer has already deposited the amount of the debt and has regularized her situation in Spain
The prosecutor Carmen Martín Aragón requests in her indictment eight years in prison for the Colombian singer Shakira (Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) for allegedly having defrauded the Tax Agency of 14.5 million euros between 2012 and 2014. The artist from Barranquilla has already deposited the amount of the debt with the Treasury and has regularized her situation before the Tax Agency , paying thousands of euros more to pay the corresponding taxes.
The public accusation maintains that Shakira has allegedly committed crimes of tax fraud committed for non-payment of income and wealth taxes in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The prosecution maintains that the artist used to defraud a corporate network, with ramifications in tax havens, and that she pretended to live abroad when in fact she was in Barcelona with the soccer player Gerard Piqué, from whom she has now separated.
According to the prosecutor, Shakira lived regularly between 2012 and 2014, first in a house in Barcelona and then in a house in Esplugues de Llobregat, which was acquired together with her partner Gerard Piqué through a company. The singer’s stays outside of Spain at that time were “for professional reasons & rdquor ;, with a very short duration, except for the United States, where he participated in the program ‘La Voz”.
More than 183 days in Spain
In its complaint, the public prosecution stated that most of the time he was in our country and exceeded the 183 days established by law to consider that a person is a habitual resident in Spain and therefore you have to pay your taxes here. Shakira has stated on “many occasions” that she had official residence in the Bahamas, but the prosecution points out that in the period under investigation she was not “on any day & rdquor; in that country and she only has 50% of a property there.
In its letter, the prosecution stressed that the singer, “knowing that she lived habitually in Spain”, served a “corporate framework that, although it had been created years ago, did not modify its essential lines and used it & rdquor; between 2012 and 2014 to hide income and assets from the Treasury. The plan to avoid paying the Treasury consisted of companies that appeared as holders of the income and assets, instead of the artist Most of the funds traveled to tax havens, such as the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Panama Shakira received 34 million euros for her professional activity during those years The Colombian has always denied the accusations.