Spanish Prosecutor’s Office asks to file investigation against Shakira for tax evasion

According to what legal sources informed EFE, the public ministry, which filed the complaint that gave rise to this second investigation for tax fraud against Shakira, has presented a document to request the dismissal of the case, as requested by the defense, in a court in Esplugues. of Llobregat (Barcelona).

The other two private accusations filed have also supported the request to file: the State Attorney’s Office – on behalf of the Spanish Tax Agency – and the government of the Spanish region of Catalonia.

Last November, the Colombian singer accepted the payment of a fine of 7.8 million euros, after an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office and the Tax Agency that prevented her from going to prison, in the first case that the justice system opened for her. defrauding 14.5 million euros between 2012 and 2014.

It was the Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office that filed this 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 crimes against the public treasury.

The singer, in fact, deposited the 6.6 million in court on August 31 that the public ministry and the Tax Agency considered evaded and last February she declared herself under investigation before the judge in a videoconference from Miami (USA). USA), in which he denied having defrauded the Treasury.

The complaint from the Prosecutor’s Office accused her of using a corporate network to avoid paying taxes on the 2018 personal income tax and wealth declarations, when the artist was waiting to sit on the dock for a first case opened by fiscal fraud.

In that trial, last November, the Colombian singer accepted the payment of a fine of 7.8 million euros, after 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.

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

To defraud the treasury, according to the Prosecutor’s complaint, the defendant used a corporate framework and presented “untrue tax returns” in which she omitted to declare income and deducted expenses that were not appropriate, thereby managing to reduce the tax. fiscal.