Music star Shakira to serve eight-year sentence in tax evasion case
4 min readBy AFP
BARCELONA: Spanish prosecutors mentioned Friday they might search a jail sentence of greater than eight years in opposition to world music celebrity Shakira, after she rejected a plea deal on accusations of tax evasion.
Prosecutors in Barcelona may even demand a advantageous of practically 24 million euros ($24.5 million) from the 45-year-old “Hips don’t Lie” songstress, whom they accuse of defrauding the Spanish tax workplace out of 14.5 million euros on revenue earned between 2012 and 2014.
Shakira, who has offered over 60 million albums, rejected a plea deal on Wednesday, saying in a press release by means of her attorneys that she was “absolutely certain of her innocence” and had determined to let the case go to court docket, “confident” that her innocence could be confirmed.
A proper referral to court docket has not but been introduced, neither has a trial date been set.
Lawyers for Shakira, one of many largest names within the world music business, say an settlement stays doable till the beginning of any trial.
Prosecutors say Shakira moved to Spain in 2011 when her relationship with FC Barcelona defender Gerard Pique grew to become public however maintained official tax residency within the Bahamas till 2015. The couple, who share two kids, introduced their separation in June.
On Wednesday, the star slammed the “complete violation of her rights” and “abusive methods” carried out by the prosecutor’s workplace.
She claimed prosecutors have been “insisting on claiming money earned during my international tours and the show ‘The Voice'” on which she was a choose within the United States, when she was “not yet resident in Spain”.
Shakira was on the singing competitors present between 2013 and 2014.
Her attorneys say that till 2014 she earned most of her cash from worldwide excursions, moved to Spain full time solely in 2015 and has met all tax obligations.
She says she has paid 17.2 million euros to Spanish tax authorities and that she has “no debt to the Treasury for many years”.
A Barcelona court docket in May dismissed an enchantment from the singer to drop the fees.
Shakira was named in one of many largest ever leaks of economic paperwork in October 2021, generally known as the “Pandora Papers”, amongst public figures linked to offshore belongings.
With her mixture of Latin and Arabic rhythms and rock affect, three-time Grammy winner Shakira scored main world hits with songs resembling “Hips don’t Lie”, “Whenever, Wherever” and “Waka Waka”, the official track of the 2010 World Cup.
BARCELONA: Spanish prosecutors mentioned Friday they might search a jail sentence of greater than eight years in opposition to world music celebrity Shakira, after she rejected a plea deal on accusations of tax evasion.
Prosecutors in Barcelona may even demand a advantageous of practically 24 million euros ($24.5 million) from the 45-year-old “Hips don’t Lie” songstress, whom they accuse of defrauding the Spanish tax workplace out of 14.5 million euros on revenue earned between 2012 and 2014.
Shakira, who has offered over 60 million albums, rejected a plea deal on Wednesday, saying in a press release by means of her attorneys that she was “absolutely certain of her innocence” and had determined to let the case go to court docket, “confident” that her innocence could be confirmed.
A proper referral to court docket has not but been introduced, neither has a trial date been set.
Lawyers for Shakira, one of many largest names within the world music business, say an settlement stays doable till the beginning of any trial.
Prosecutors say Shakira moved to Spain in 2011 when her relationship with FC Barcelona defender Gerard Pique grew to become public however maintained official tax residency within the Bahamas till 2015. The couple, who share two kids, introduced their separation in June.
On Wednesday, the star slammed the “complete violation of her rights” and “abusive methods” carried out by the prosecutor’s workplace.
She claimed prosecutors have been “insisting on claiming money earned during my international tours and the show ‘The Voice'” on which she was a choose within the United States, when she was “not yet resident in Spain”.
Shakira was on the singing competitors present between 2013 and 2014.
Her attorneys say that till 2014 she earned most of her cash from worldwide excursions, moved to Spain full time solely in 2015 and has met all tax obligations.
She says she has paid 17.2 million euros to Spanish tax authorities and that she has “no debt to the Treasury for many years”.
A Barcelona court docket in May dismissed an enchantment from the singer to drop the fees.
Shakira was named in one of many largest ever leaks of economic paperwork in October 2021, generally known as the “Pandora Papers”, amongst public figures linked to offshore belongings.
With her mixture of Latin and Arabic rhythms and rock affect, three-time Grammy winner Shakira scored main world hits with songs resembling “Hips don’t Lie”, “Whenever, Wherever” and “Waka Waka”, the official track of the 2010 World Cup.
