Folder to the last pending account Shakira with Justice, at least with criminal proceedings. A court in Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona) has decreed the archiving and provisional dismissal of the investigation opened against the Colombian artist by two alleged crimes against the Public Treasury.
The archiving of the proceedings occurs after both the Prosecutor’s Office as the State Attorney’s Office and the Generalitat of Catalonia request it. “As there is no accusation, only an order of dismissal and the filing of these proceedings can be issued,” indicates the judge’s order.
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Last November, Shakira accepted a fine of 7.8 million euros in the trial for the first case opened against her for tax fraud. The singer reached an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office and the Tax Agency by which she admitted having defrauded 15.5 million euros between the years 2012 and 2014. In addition, she avoided going to prison.
In this second case, the Prosecutor’s Office requested that it be filed considering that “there is not sufficient evidence regarding the commission of the aforementioned crimes.” In the order in which the judge of Esplugues de Llobregat hears this request, she emphasizes that “in the present case, there is no indication “anyone who can prove that Shakira Isabel MR had consciously and voluntarily omitted information and documentation with tax significance from her tax advisor for the purposes of the personal income tax and IP declarations for the 2018 financial year.”
“It is for this reason,” the judge continues, “that it is considered that the most consistent with the law, taking into account the provisions of arts. 637 and 641 of the LECrim, is to decree the provisional dismissal of the proceedings.”
The facts that were being investigated indicated that Shakira, “allegedly motivated by the desire not to pay taxes on all of her income and to stop paying what she was entitled to into the State Treasury, presented Untruthful personal income tax and IP declarations for the 2018 financial year, omitting to declare income and deducting expenses that were not applicable.”
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The proceedings of the Prosecutor’s Office maintained that the Colombian artist collected part of the income she received from the transfer of your musical rights through a company incorporated in Luxembourg with which it signed several “simulated contracts”, so that it benefited from a “very reduced” taxation that in the 2018 financial year stood at 1.39%. She also refers to the complaint that Shakira used another instrumental company, incorporated in Spain in 2017, to “account for the income and expenses corresponding” to her tour.
Specifically, the Public Ministry mentioned other 17 “instrumental” societies based in Holland, Malta, British Virgin Islands, Panama, Bahamas, Miami, New York or Liechtenstein that the singer allegedly used to manage the income from her musical career as well as the maintenance of her real estate and financial assets.
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