Shakira about to close her problems with justice in Spain

Shakira is one step away from settling his pending accounts with the spanish justiceafter the Prosecutor’s Office and the accusations have requested the filing of her second open case for tax fraud, although they refer her to the administrative route to settle her debts with the Treasury.

According to legal sources, the Prosecutor’s Office and the private accusations brought by the Tax Agency and the regional government of Catalonia (the Generalitat) supported the defense’s request to file the case that the singer has open for defrauding 6.6 million. of euros (about 7 million dollars) in 2018, so the court will have no choice but to close the case.

Three months ago, Shakira’s defense requested the filing of the tax fraud case opened against the singer, who in August of last year already deposited with the Barcelona Court the 6.6 million that the Treasury was demanding from her.

The Prosecutor’s Office ruled in favor of the file, but referred the singer to the administrative route to catch up with the Treasury, so that the defense will allocate the sum initially deposited in court to pay the debt claimed by the Tax Agency. .

The other two private accusations filed also supported the request to file: the State Attorney’s Office – on behalf of the Tax Agency – and the Generalitat, according to legal sources.

“We are pleased that the Prosecutor’s Office has finally adhered to our request for archiving,” said the Colombian’s defense in a statement sent to the media.
It was precisely the Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office that filed the second complaint for tax fraud against the singer, but now, after months of investigation, it has concluded that there is not sufficient evidence that she committed the two crimes against the public treasury attributed to her.

The Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office filed that second complaint against Shakira, in which it accused her of using a corporate network to avoid paying taxes on the 2018 income and wealth tax returns, when the artist was waiting to sit on the bench following his first open case for tax fraud.

In that trial, last November, the Colombian accepted the payment of a fine of 7.8 million euros, in an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office and the Tax Agency that prevented her from going to prison, after assuming that she defrauded 14, 5 million euros between 2012 and 2014.

In parallel to these criminal fronts, Shakira is waiting for the Spanish National Court to resolve a dispute she maintains with the Tax Agency for the 2011 tax year, in which it is decided whether the singer resided in Spain that year for more than 183 annual days that, according to the law, make a taxpayer a tax resident in the country.

This matter, however, will remain in the contentious-administrative process, in which the artist’s defense hopes to be able to demonstrate that she did not reside in Spain long enough to be obliged to pay taxes, without it becoming a criminal process.

The complaint whose file the Prosecutor’s Office is now requesting maintains that the singer defrauded the Tax Agency of 5.3 million in income tax, corresponding to the income she received from her 2018 tour “El Dorado” and from the transfer of her intellectual rights. , and another 773,600 euros in wealth tax for the 12 million it owns in real estate and financial assets.

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