Colombian superstar Shakira (Stephanie Cardinal/Corbis)
The Spanish newspaper El Pais reported, on Friday, that a public prosecutor had called for the Colombian star to be punished Shakira Imprisonment for eight years and a fine of more than 23 million euros, 23.51 million dollars, in the case of tax fraud She is accused of failing to pay 14.5 million euros.
The pop star this week rejected a settlement offered by the attorney general’s office to close the case in which she is accused of failing to pay taxes from 2012 to 2014, a period when Shakira says she was not living in Spain.
The Spanish authorities charged Shakira with tax evasion in December 2018, claiming that she had designated the Bahamas as her official residence for tax purposes during those years, but in fact she was living in Spain with her partner, Spanish football player Gerard Pique.
In contrast, Shakira says she was not a legal resident in Spain during the years during which she was accused of tax evasion in the country, and she owes nothing to the Spanish tax authorities who are using “scapegoats” to intimidate other taxpayers into settling their taxes, according to her.
(Archyde.com, The New Arab)