Shakira has paid $6 million in tax fraud claims

Colombian singer Shakira has deposited in court 6.6 million euros that prosecutors are seeking for tax fraud in her 2018 income tax and property tax returns, in the second case she has brought for crimes against the public treasury.

As legal sources informed EFE, the artist handed over the allegedly defrauded amount last August to the Investigative Court number 2 Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona), while waiting for the judge to call her to testify as under investigation. open case.

The delivered amount by the singer, according to “El Periódico de Catalunya”, would allow her to benefit from relieving from damage repair in case she is convicted of tax fraud again, after returning the allegedly stolen money.

Pact with the Prosecutor’s Office

This extenuating circumstance of damage repair led to the agreement that the artist reached last Monday with Prosecutor’s office and private accusations used by the Tax Agency and the Generalitat to avoid prison, in exchange for a millionaire goodin his first trial for tax fraud.

Namely, Shakira accepted a fine of 7.8 million euros after admitting in court that defrauded the state treasury for HRK 14.5 million between 2012 and 2014, so the court commuted the sentence to three years jail which he imposed on him for six crimes against the public treasury.

Even before the prosecution filed the report, Shakira had already returned the defrauded 14.5 million to the state treasury, which did not prevent public ministry initiate criminal proceedings against the singer.

Another open process in the State Court

Also, the singer has opened another process in the litigation-administrative council National audience for alleged tax fraud committed in 2011, for which she has already paid 60 million euros while still waiting for the case to be resolved. resource which he presented against tax settlement.

In a new lawsuit being investigated by the Esplugues court, prosecutors accuse the singer of defrauding the singer of 5.3 million in personal income tax for 2018, which corresponds to the income she received from her “El Dorado” tour that year and from the transfer of her intellectual rights, and another 773,600 euros in wealth tax for the 12 million he owns in real estate and financial assets.

To defraud the treasury, the prosecution claims, the defendant used a corporate network and displayed “false statements” personal income tax (IRPF), in which he failed to declare income and deducted expenses that were not applicable, thereby managing to reduce the amount paid to the exchequer.